<p>Anybody read the Choice Blog?</p>
<p>Voice</a> Mail From Harvard Makes the Choice Tough to Call - NYTimes.com</p>
<p>Geez.</p>
<p>I fail to see the purpose of the article except for bragging though. I’m sure the kid is a hard worker and has earned every acceptance but really the article tells us nothing.</p>
<p>The article is one of a series in which the Times asked students to chronicle their journey in college admissions. You’d have to look at them in a broader view to see how the students acted and felt throughout.</p>
<p>I wish him luck, but I want to punch him. It’s nothing personal - I just wish we had his problems!</p>
<p>Perhaps if you read the blog again and replaced Harvard with Hope College and a whole different slew of good, but not schools “everyone” applies to (and thus has acceptance rates of <6%, there’d be a tad less <insert whatever="" feeling="">. It does sound a little bragging etc but mostly that’s due to the list itself, not the message. But the moral of the story is that he got into a lot of schools and he could find good reasons to consider every single one as a good place for him. The list, while gold standard for sure, is still just a list. It’s really no different than for the kid who has to decide between Colgate, USC, Davidson, Duke, Georgetown or the kid who has Allegheny, Wooster, Denver and Swanee… the decision is no less difficult, no less finite and just as agonizing because well… they all have something to offer a kid who is just about to embark on a whole new adventure… nerve wracking for sure.</insert></p>
<p>I read it and wondered what does this kid have that every ivy wants him so bad?</p>
<p>I wondered why Deep Springs rejected him.</p>
<p>Probably because they knew he wouldnt go there and they could see they were the biggest safety on a list for a kid like him. That’s my guess anyway.</p>
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<p>Me too! The article, in combination with some posts here on CC, makes me feel that there’s some magic circle of super-super high school seniors who are wanted by all the very tippy top schools. Those kids get to choose between several of HPYS. Other students generally shouldn’t waste resources on applying to any of those. But how do you know?</p>
<p>Stressing over Ivy Day next week likely being a washout for my kid. Yet a very comparable peer at school was accepted by Harvard, SCEA.</p>
<p>This might answer the Deep Springs question - Deep Springs is a school of 26 students. </p>
<p>Do you think that adcoms at colleges read the NY Times column and then treat these applicants any differently because they are in the column?</p>
<p>This student has been doing a series of blog posts for the NY times on college admission. He attends our local Catholic high school. My d has mutual friends. I think he is one of those kids that have " it all" and is also a nice person! I was surprised that Emory only offered him 15K. Sounds like he didn’t get the Emory scholars which is the free ride.</p>
<p>I also wondered if the NY times articles has produced a positive response from the adcoms.</p>
<p>He gave himself more problem when he let the newpaper publish his private information on the internet. His decision is now more difficult because of the huge amount of opinions from many people.</p>
<p>Westie,
The blog follows multiple seniors through the application process. It specifically asks them to list where they applied and where they were accepted. I don’t think the purpose was bragging. The students who were profiled applied to a variety of schools. I think it would be nice if more info were provided about them such as scores, gpa, etc.</p>
<p>From his first article he had already been accepted SCEA to Yale, you wonder did the other Ivies read that and say “Let’s try to lure this kid away from Yale!”</p>
<p>Being from Georgia, or not from NY or CA, probably helped out a bit, too.
Good for him. He sounds like a nice kid who does appreciate what he has in front of him.
He’ll do well no matter where he chooses; that’s what all of the colleges know that he probably doesn’t.</p>
<p>Modadunn is right; so is prefect. He’s not bragging – he’s simply stating how things turned out for him, as per his NYT assignment. Bragging would be telling everyone how “amazing” his essays/recs/SATs/GPA were, having his parents reblog about about what a talented young boy he is, and then asking, “please, oh PLEASE, do I even have a chance at my local community college?”… which is what 99.9% of the ‘chance me’ posters do. He gets his pick of top schools because he’s genuinely an interesting kid with interests outside of being a college admissions tool and checking all the right boxes on his app.</p>
<p>I wonder what the consensus would be if he were choosing between Texas Tech, LSU, and U Montana…</p>
<p>I think he has a pleasan, engaging style of writing. JMO.</p>
<p>What’s TASP? One commenter implied it was something he went to. Not sure if that’s true.</p>
<p>Maybe this is the biggest problem he has ever had in his life. I think we should try to be more sympathetic.</p>
<p>What is TASP? In the context of CC, it is a very well known program among the people who believe in the value of summer programs to enhance a college application. </p>
<p>[Telluride</a> Association: Our Programs: For High School Students: Summer Program for Juniors (TASP): General Information](<a href=“http://www.tellurideassociation.org/programs/high_school_students/tasp/tasp_general_info.html]Telluride”>http://www.tellurideassociation.org/programs/high_school_students/tasp/tasp_general_info.html)</p>
<p>As far as the story and the reactions to it, it is simply Exhibit 1235 to support the notion that ALL parts of the application process should remain private, and this despite the seemingly impossible answer that should always be given to the media, namely a simple no, or a better hell no! Agreeing to blog for The Choice is just plain stupid, not to mention entirely worthless.</p>
<p>Why do some people ask for such applicants to give their scores , grades, etc to ‘help’ readers? Is it not obvious Eric almost certainly has very high scores and grades and is possibly valedictorian or at least among the very top of his class and has taken ap or ib courses? Lol</p>