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<p>Good question. The end of admission season is a time for congratulation and wishing people well.</p>
<p>^“The end of admission season is a time for congratulation and wishing people well.”</p>
<p>Since when?</p>
<p>^ For as long as gentlemen have been gentlemen.</p>
<p>^As I look around this world, I don’t see very many gentlemen. The world is divided along religious and idealogical lines. Our own nation is bitterly divided along political lines. Public discourse is ugly and hateful. So perhaps your point was that in the Victorian Age “the end of admission season is a time for congratulation and wishing people well” but now that concept no longer applies.</p>
<p>I am happy for my daughter’s friend. Your reply is just the kind of thinking that permeates our culture. Anything other than positive feelings is not to be accepted. My feelings of anger are minor compared to my good feelings towards my daughter’s best friend. I would have thought my posting spoke to who I am as a person, both in my personal and professional life. I believe I am more honest than most in describing my struggle with conflicting feelings. Sticking a yellow smiley sticker on things is neither sophisticated nor realistic. Sometimes we’d prefer to feel one way, but find ourselves struggling with different feelings. I resent your accusation that I am not glad for her success, just because I have other coinciding thoughts. Your assumption is incorrect.</p>
<p>“I would have thought my posting spoke to who I am as a person, both in my personal and professional life.”</p>
<p>I agree with this and can totally relate. All my kids friends are white, and as much I like them, I often have mixed feelings about the differences in the way they are perceived. And don’t get me started on the dating situation!</p>
<p>Hi, BestFriends2010, </p>
<p>When I reread your first post in this thread, I saw that you had indeed written, “My daughter still has many fine colleges to choose from, and we are fortunate,” showing perspective on your situation. It is tough when the offer of admission from the desired college doesn’t come, especially when a child has worked hard to prepare to thrive at that college. For that, any parent in any admission season has my sympathies. Mixed emotions are understandable at this time of year. Congratulations to your daughter for her successes, and best wishes to all the applicants this year who are dealing with disappointments also.</p>
<p>^ ^ ^ ^ Gentlemanliness never goes out of season.</p>
<p>Sorry, this isn’t my thread but I just have some questions that are related. I am half phillipino and half white. Thanks. </p>
<p>1)Does that give me any advantage in the admission process?</p>
<p>2)Can I get in trouble for marking pacific islander when phillipino is supposed to be considered Asian?</p>
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<p>I have not heard any statement that any college is looking for more “half-Asian” students than they already have, but perhaps someone can mention an example. </p>
<p>People from the Philippines are plainly “Asian” by the federal definition of “Asian,” which specifically includes people from the Philippines. Just as Taiwan and Japan’s islands are islands in the Pacific Ocean, but the people who live on them are called Asian, so too Filipinos are called Asians. People from Guam or Hawaii or Samoa are called Pacific Islanders. It may not make sense, but it is the law. The FAQ posts far upthread in this long thread will give you some more details. </p>
<p>AFTER EDIT: I should point out, as is pointed out in the FAQ posts far above in the thread, that marking any race is optional. It is possible to leave the ethnicity and race questionnaire blank, as thousands of successful college applicants do each year. </p>
<p>Good luck in your applications.</p>
<p>Best wishes for a diverse and academically challenging campus experience to all the class of 2010 high school graduates.</p>
<p>I agree with TA, best wishes for a diverse and exceptional college experience for all.</p>
<p>I’m not a parent, but I don’t think you sounded ridiculous at all–I may not truly understand how you felt for another two decades.</p>
<p>For better or worse, I never experienced the true disappointment that I am sure many high school seniors faced come April of their last high school semester. I applied to four schools and was accepted to all four. I was much less successful obtaining the prestige scholarships I desired so badly, but I could not in good conscience complain about not earning those when I knew that others were feeling much worse than I was.</p>
<p>Even now, as I have finished applying to grad schools, I did not experience true disappointment. Though I was rejected by all but two schools on my list, the two schools that did accept me were curiously enough both at the top of my personal ranking. So when Harvard Business School rejected me, I didn’t care; the day before, one of my dreams had just come true.</p>
<p>So there is no way I can understand exactly how you felt when I don’t even understand how my peers felt three years ago. But even so, you did not sound ridiculous. Unless my kids also choose to maximize their admissions, I believe I will experience what you felt many a year later.</p>
<p>Now that I’ve gotten in my top choice, I officially don’t care about affirmative action anymore.</p>
<p>I am a hypocrite.</p>
<p>Yes you are!</p>
<p>That does make you a hypocrite, but the only reason people even talk about affirmative action in colleges here is because they’re applying to college and they’re convinced that some sneaky URM is going to steal their spot at Yale despite having a 500 on the SAT or something. It’s not like they genuinely care about fairness in everyday life or anything.</p>
<p>lololol I think most people, once they get into college, stop caring about CC in general.</p>
<p>^You’d be surprised</p>
<p>I’m a white South African…am I urm in the USA?</p>
<p>no, you are not URM</p>