Fenwaypark, What are you attempting here? Are you trying to figure out who I am? This site is called College Confidential for a reason. I have considerable experience with colleges and universities. I’ve been associated with a number of them. My work involves them. I’ve also been involved with selecting applicants and I have reviewed applications-read, rated and made recommendations about the applications of applicants. I have not discussed what the applicants were applying for. That will remain confidential. But I have not been nor am I now an admissions officer at a college or university. Carefully reviewing my posts won’t get you any closer to knowing who I am or what type of applications I’ve reviewed. Your interest is perplexing!
Let me help you with that.
Youngsters and parents read these threads for the purpose of receiving opinions and facts. When an adult, who passes him/herself off as an authority, posts inaccurate facts and unsubstantiated claims, I believe that person should be called out. Then let the youngsters and parents decide, based on all the information.
Your claims and denials about your experience are relevant to the weight and credibility that should be accorded to your views. You want to remain “confidential”? Then don’t talk about your “experience” as a way to bolster your personal credibility, inaccurate facts and unsubstantiated claims on the Brown forum.
Back to the topic, got any more data about the larger “affirmative action” program at Brown than at other Ivies…based on your credibility, “experience” or anything else?
Or to put it another way: what you’re saying is in a discussion on college admissions you mentioned you worked in admissions reviewing applicants which provided you some insight but intentionally obfuscated the fact that it was not college admissions? How much of a breach of confidentiality would it have been to be transparent in your other post that you weren’t talking about evaluating applicants for undergrad admissions? I’m sure it was still relevant and helpful experience even if you made it clear it wasn’t undergrad admissions. I cite my MD/PhD admissions experience sometimes (more commonly it’s in reference to MD admissions, not UG) but I always mention that it’s MD/PhD as a sort of caveat emptor that there’s a chance my advice isn’t accurate. You have a consistent pattern of vaguely dropping your credentials; I think it’s more likely you wanted people on that thread to assume your admissions experience was undergrad admissions rather than that you had confidentiality concerns since you readily clarified that it wasn’t undergrad admissions here.
Fenwaypark’s interest in you and why you speak with such authority despite being so incredibly misinformed often is far less perplexing than the interest you had about knocking Brown down a few pegs. In this thread your assertions that Brown favors legacies more than its peer schools were debunked almost immediately or another thread where you posted on the Penn forum how weak the science program at Brown is and how inflated students’ GPAs must be and doesn’t that make you Quakers angry, (http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/18099619#Comment_18099619) or talking about how Brown isn’t a rigorous school because anyone who’s about to get a C in a class just switches to S/NC despite the fact that the deadline to do so is well before one knows they are getting a C (http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/brown-university/1732462-54-as-21-bs-and-4-cs-and-most-cs-probably-morph-into-s-p1.html) or somehow finding a way to make fun of Brown students in a discussion about two SUNYs (http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/17995983/#Comment_17995983)