<p>Lol the article says it was ‘heartbreaking’ she got deferred from Yale.</p>
<p>Yeah, no.</p>
<p>I thought it was cute - got a nice voice. What else is there for those kids to do while waiting for their RD results.</p>
<p>Cornell’s case was few years back. The kid had subpar stats. With all of her connections, she could have been quietly admitted, but with the article and listing of her stats, I think adcom had no choice but to reject her.</p>
<p>Is it just me, or did she remind you all a little of Rebecca Black, who made that dreadful video about Friday? I wonder how much her parents paid the videographer? Personally, I’d probably lean towards taking the kid from Africa who walked miles every day to study under a public street lamp because his parents couldn’t afford electricity over someone who had been packaged. Or the kid whose video would have shown him waking up in a room with eight other people, or the one who couldn’t afford a Yale sweatshirt, etc. etc. etc.</p>
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<p>Actually, I was thinking the opposite. How did she find the time to do this? She made the video in January. My kid had 2-3 interviews every week in January, homework and tests, and two ECs, both very demanding. Senior year January was not leaisurely.</p>
<p>I wonder how Andy Warhol, had he lived to see YouTube, would have recalibrated his oft-repeated comment that, “In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.” Yale hopeful Jackie Milestone has logged much more than her allotment for sure. And, as for Rebecca Black, however insignificant the artistic merits of her video, I thank her for reminding me that Thursday comes before and Saturday comes after Friday. And “Sunday comes afterwards”!</p>
<p>Or perhaps this is all as much or more about her music. She does seem to be a talented writer in her own right, unlike Rebecca Black, who recorded someone else’s prepackaged song/video. See the link for two other songs she recorded. Despite the title (?) , “Trying to Get In” is another song altogether. </p>
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<p>I turned it off after the first minute or so. Does she do more than multiple things with the tshirts and stuffed bulldog? (That doesnt sound right, but you know what I mean).</p>
<p>She seems more talented than Rebecca Black, for whatever it’s worth.</p>
<p>Tufts gets a few thousand of these each year – indeed, Tufts seems to have started the trend by actively encouraging video submissions a few years back.</p>
<p>Elle Woods!! Missing the hot tub scene!</p>
<p>Thanks for the Legally Blonde reference, jaylynn! Q: “You got into Harvard Law?” Elle’s answer: “What? Like it’s hard?”</p>
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<p>This reminds me of the first draft essay that my son wrote about his school, a school that he knew well from being a legacy and from having attended summer programs there. He wrote a lot about how much he enjoyed x, y and z landmarks, special places, etc. I told him I think that’s the kiss of death. I think when colleges are asking you “why College X” they aren’t REALLY asking you to play back what you like about college X (the location! the lake! the river! the mountains! access to the vibrant city life! the bucolic rural surroudings! the great profs! the other smart students! the world of opportunities!). I think the question really needs to be answered by turning it around into “what is it about me and my personal characteristics / way of approaching academics and ECs that would make me bring something to the campus that would benefit this campus community in some way that they’d miss out on if they didn’t admit me.” Because the message really needs to be – here is what I would do for YOU – not – you would make ME so happy if you admitted me because this is MY dream school. Yale isn’t the Make-a-Wish Foundation --how much they satisfy the dreams of their applicants to attend Yale isn’t on their radar screen, nor should it be.</p>
<p>absweetmarie, I just want to say every time I see your screen name, I mentally hear “Lady Jane” by the Rolling Stones.</p>
<p>Interesting, Pizzagirl. I am actually trying to call up images of mid-'60s Bob Dylan. Had no idea the Stones also mentioned “me” in the same era!</p>
<p>P.S. “Yale isn’t the Make-a-Wish Foundation”! Snort. Very funny.</p>
<p>Pizzagirl - that’s how D2 wrote her why college X essay, she wrote about what she could bring to the school, and it was only at the very end that she mentioned her connection to the school and why she wanted to be part of the school.</p>
<p>Exactly …
In other words, it’s “I’m observant enough to have observed YOU (the college) well enough to know that you value x, y and z in your campus community and that’s what I can bring to benefit you.”
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“I’m observant enough that I’ve observed MYSELF (the student) so well to know that <strong>I</strong> really love x, y and z and I’ve found that your college offers x, y and z and that’s why it appeals to me so.” </p>
<p>I suspect that a great many application essays, even those of top students on CC, talk about what they like about the given college instead of what they can bring to the college.</p>
<p>I find the video effort rather sad. I hope she doesn’t get in, so that she can finally separate from Daddy and find her own true path. I feel for these wealthy legacy kids, growing up with all that pressure and expectation.</p>
<p>I think poor kids have even bigger pressure than those welathy kids. I personally believe the middle class kids probably have it the worst - expectation of going to good college, but need merit aid to make it happen most of the time, unless their parents having been eating beans in the last 10 years.</p>
<p>If this kid ends up going to Yale, it will not mean she isn’t finding her own path, it would be no different if she end up at any of top 20 schools. At the same time, there is nothing wrong in having a family tradition, no need to avoid it just to prove something, frankly, that would be a sign of insecurity.</p>
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<p>Do you honestly think she isn’t more obsessive than the average high school applicant? With ALL her Yale t-shirts, sweatshirts, posting of Yale related pictures on her room wall, dressing her dogs in Yale t-shirts, trying to hitch a ride to a Yale/Harvard game, and finding the time to write a Yale song and make this video?</p>
<p>I do think Ms. Milestone demonstrates a level of school obsession that is on the high end, although singing and songwriting are her thing, so she is expressing herself the way she knows how. Bottom line, it’s not harmful. I can’t imagine it would be helpful, but who knows? The monetary outlay required to acquire all that school gear would have been nontrivial. Her Ps probably thought it was worth the money. Whatever. I could think of better ways to spend the cash but I’m not going there. I’m a little envious, truth be told, of people who come up with ideas for viral videos (color me shallow). With regard to whether she does or doesn’t get into Yale, I don’t think the outcome is a big deal, either way.</p>