A column from today’s New York Times:
Well worth reading. 
I thought this would have had a byline date of 4/1, but as a parent of a Stanford student, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Bruni at is sarcastic best.
I thought it was hysterical!
Hilarious! Loved this:
Absolutely hilarious! =))
The sad part is that what Bruni is writing about is true, while claiming that they aren’t playing the numbers game, they are, whether it comes to SAT scores, GPA, class rank, the whole enchilada, the elite schools are glorifying in how selective they are, all while denying that they do this (“I am shocked, shocked to find out there is gambling going on here” …‘your winnings, sir’).
Kind of same thing in the music world with elite conservatories, there is a joke in the violin and piano worlds that the next big thing in early music teaching will be in vitro methods for piano and violin (there are kids as young as 2 starting piano, 3 or so with violin).
Funny but… Bruni went to UNC-Chapel Hill and Columbia for masters…and works at the most prestigious media company in the world, with halls full of Ivy League alums. I think Bruni feels that UNC gives him blue collar street cred, or something. UNC is a most selective public U…and he went there on a full ride. It is only a modest degree in the halls of The Times or Goldman Sachs.
Of course UNC gives him street cred. As anyone on Wall Street will tell you, it takes a special kind of person to make it through an underfunded community college without getting shot.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/stanford-admissions-new-york-times_us_56fbe83ce4b083f5c60623c0
I gues NYT ran the article a day too early.
I like this comment from the Huff Post.
I still find it shocking that they didn’t admit ANYONE. I always thought the people walking around were actors or paid to be there.
“the elite schools are glorifying in how selective they are, all while denying that they do this (“I am shocked, shocked to find out there is gambling going on here” …‘your winnings, sir’)”
You don’t HAVE to give them glorification, you know. 99% of people in this country never give one minute’s thought to any of the elite schools and their lives go on just fine. The glorification is only if you give it to them. It’s as silly as saying that Neiman-Marcus or Piaget or Lamborghini or (insert luxury item of choice) “glorify themselves”. It’s your choice to pay attention or not. It’s your choice to make them loom large in your consciousness.
He wasn’t far off. Stanford announced their acceptance rate this year is down to 4.69%. Crazy…
Penn RD about 6%, Duke RD 4%, Princeton RD under 4%, …
Yes, distance is indeed very important. When need be, you need to be able to get to your kid without worrying too much about scheduling or money, which is hard if the kid is across the country. I am just glad my last child will be attending college within a driving distance 