<p>lmaaaaooo d-dad, thats hilarious!</p>
<p>This year, a girl got in with a ~1240 SAT and top 30% GPA got into Cornell all while two asians..me and a guy with 1600 SAT's (top 5% with varsity sports, leadership, self-taught piano, etc..) got rejected/waitlisted. Sigh...I guess Cornell reached their asian quota. =p</p>
<p>what does "d" mean?
"s"?</p>
<p>for eg. my d's school. my d thought that...</p>
<p>Dad?? Sister?</p>
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<p>Our world is going to be ruled by stupid people who got into good schools >because of "exceptions"'</p>
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<p>Are you implying that we are not ruled by stupid people all the time? Are you implying that the world leaders are a bunch of geniuses and calculators? Let me tell you something, this world is stupid.</p>
<p>Parents on this board use that kind of notation, chanman. It means daughter(d) and son(s), duhhh....</p>
<p>OHHH
i'ma n idiot. i thought it meant dad and sister</p>
<p>lol--it happens. we all have blonde moments (yes, take offense blondes!!!!--mwhahahahaha)...ok, i'm done...</p>
<p>Well you can thank AA for this, and other intitutions like it. I just don't get it. I can see colleges looking favorablely on a poor minority who grew up in a bad neighborhood, but legacys and stupid people that are good at sports is a completely different thing. Schools should be about academics not who you know and football. Like someone said in a pervious post, the world in going to be run by sports addicts and the stuck up rich.....o wait it already is.</p>
<p>so what are you gonna do about it? the answer is, stop your whining, and pick up a sport.</p>
<p>haha. "stop your whining. pick up a sport." Then be the 6th fastest runner in the united states.</p>
<p>yep.</p>
<p>Life isn't fair. CC'ers act like college admissions is the first time they've witnessed this. Trust me, George Bush isn't president because he's unsually smart,</p>
<p>good example^^
I wish life were fair</p>
<p>lolok1214---CORRECTION AMERICAN INDIAN!</p>
<p>Well, I just found this out this week but I think it's quite funny... turns out Lehigh didn't get my ACT scores so they accepted me with an 1120 SAT score. I mean, Lehigh is not Harvard but their engineering program(where I was accepted) is pretty darn difficult to get into.</p>
<p>d-dad what you said about the infamous "Yale legacy" is soooo true and really a scary commentary on the world that we live in.</p>
<p>colleges favor intellegent athletes, people with connections and are very very random at the mid to upper levels. stop whining and deal with it.</p>
<p>yeah ThomYorke! Radiohead fans on CC make it far cooler!</p>
<p>Just to get back about how it's not fair that athletes get into great schools like Stanford and Duke for athletics, just remember that a good chunck of revenue is going back to the school. Yeah a good amount is going to the athletic apartment, but if you did research, you'd be surprised how many scholarships and expenses are funded by the revenue of these big time sports programs. (ie UConn would not be the up and coming university it is without the success of its basketball teams, attracted better students and provided the university with a ton of revenue)</p>
<p>Also remember how dull a school would be if it were made up of a bunch of kids with 1560 and up SAT's, 4.2 GPA's with no interests. What about the kid that has a 1280 but is the best violinist under 18 in the country or is able to qualify for the Olympic games? Why can't they get a degree from Harvard?</p>
<p>The sad thing is that we base all our assessments on SAT scores alone. Come on, there are a lot of intelligent people on these boards, and i doubt those that got into prestigious colleges only got in with high SAT's or those with low ones got in without being excellent students in the classroom and adding something special to the communtiy.</p>
<p>Not only that, there is extreme commitment that comes along with being on varsity sports, let alone a world-class violinist or athlete. Instead of spending their free time making love to their princeton review SAT book they are putting their time and effort into something that provides more than a number that says 1600.</p>
<p>What I wonder, hearing about kids with pretty mediocre stats, are their applications always throughly accurate, if you know what I mean. Just a thought.</p>
<p>And it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that some students get someone else to write essays. </p>
<p>But I am a cynic.</p>