<p>"No, but the admissions office are the ones who admitted the fools who wrote and edited this piece. The university would be a better place and would be a lot less embarrassed today if they had admitted Jian Li instead of those guys."</p>
<p>I would rather go to school with the kids who wrote this than cookie cutter kid Jian Li. That's just me. I'm WASP-y as they come, and my sense of humor is probably "atrocious" but if I'm spending four years at college, I want to be around kids like the kids who wrote this... at least I'd rather be with them than having to hear about the fourteen orchestras Jian Li was the first-chair violinist in and the National Science Fairs he won...</p>
<p>As much as some of you may hate it, diversity goes in all directions. I think a lot of you will be in for a shock when college rolls around and you're expecting everyone to be a politically aware nice person... I'm sure there are a lot of kids who border on racist. And trust me, I KNOW it goes both ways...</p>
<p>well i don't think we can really blame the admissions office for not understanding every facet of every applicant's personality. there are rude, mean, cruel people everywhere, and the admissions committee has to judge each applicant's character by simply reading over their application. we don't know that Jian Li might have been more of a bad influence on campus.</p>
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Yo Caltech! You feel me? I am the bomb when it comes to ‘meth’ and biological science (majoring in weed). Friggin 1200 SAT, my N*gga. Fire in the hole?</p>
<p>Let me straighten you up, yo. I, the super smart Caucasian and Caltech the super fob college; we just don’t mix like Potasiem and milk. I got f<em>ing </em><strong>ed and filed some crap against Caltech for rejecting my *</strong><em>. They rejected me because I got balls bigger than f</em>ing jesus and I thought pi was food. I told my old lady to change my name to Yoyo Ma cos yoyos are damn tight but they told me white children don’t play with yoyos; we play with Michael Jackson. Yet I got all these trash talk from some little asian prick and even from Mr. T. Crack ain’t no help either. Only makes me think I am banging some hot chick. </p>
<p>Why are you chinamans so damn messed up? Rednecks make the world go round. We own Muslims, use black people as slaves and shove fillings in donuts.
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<p>if you don't then you should know how asians would like feel when they read that article..</p>
<p>Trivia: Worst parody of a satire ever. Failed.</p>
<p>You are writing in ebonics, so I thought you were trying to make it a black person, then you throw that redneck line in there and confuse the daylights out of everybody... if you're going to try to prove a point, try to keep it coherent. </p>
<p>And let me clarify. I am not saying whether or not I agree or disagree with what they did. I'm just saying that a few borderline racists make for a much more interesting and dynamic campus than more cookie-cutter piano prodigy 2400 sat club kids...</p>
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<p>I'm just saying that a few borderline racists make for a much more interesting and dynamic campus than more cookie-cutter piano prodigy 2400 sat club kids...<<</p>
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<p>That your prefer to hang around with "borderline racists" rather than dedicated students says a lot about you.</p>
<p>i don't think trivia wrote that, so there's no point in bashing him. still, his parody works because it was poorly written the same way that the princeton article was.</p>
<p>I said nothing about wanting to hang out with them. I said that they make for a more dynamic campus, which they do. I want all view-points represented when I'm at college. If I wanted to be shielded from all dissenting opinions I could go Berkeley in the 1960's... or New College of Florida... but I don't. When I'm at college I'll fall into my niche of pipe-smoking, jazz-listening libertarians, but that doesn't mean I want a college full of them. I want diversity... and no, that isn't the whole New York Youth Symphony Orchestra and the complete group of finalists from Intel...</p>
<p>Yeah, but at the same time it's not as if Princeton admissions officers sat around and said, "Hmm, some borderline rascists? We're looking a little low on our quota for those this year. Yes, yes, let's see, we only have 0.00001% borderline rascists and 2 full-fledged rascists. Let's go ahead and admit these kids', for 'diversity's' sake, and then they can write amusing articles for our newspaper."</p>
<p>Basically, nobody would highlight their rascism willingly in a college application. From what I'm reading, it seems like Visirale thinks that people who are borderline rascist are mildly interesting and that's why they were admitted, but honestly, how would an adcom KNOW that? It's not like somebody wrote their essays about hating Hispanics/Asians/Blacks/Whites whatever.</p>
<p>I wanted to tell everyone that I apologized to PtonGrad2000 and all the other members of the Princeton community for projecting an author's and an editor's belief (unfairly) on a large group of people. I didn't mean it, but I said as much implicitly.</p>
<p>Anyhow, as an outsider (of another ivy), I am really heartened to see many members of the Princeton community speak out, especially Princeton asians who directly represent how sensitive this issue is for asians and asian americans.</p>
<p>As for Visirale, in addition to agreeing with coureur, I also found it ironic that you referenced "borderline racists [via "I'd rather be hanging out with them than..."] and diversity in the same post.</p>
<p>please, please don't judge the entirety of Princeton and its student body with one "joke" article, no matter how much in poor taste it was. Regardless of the intent of the article, there are racist people everywhere. If you're smart enough to get into princeton, you're probably smart enough to not highlight your political and racist views on your application. Princeton admissions has nothing to do with this.</p>
<p>I'm not postulating as to why they were admitted. I'm just saying that I'd rather go to school with them. I totally agree that no one would highlight racism in a college app (Well, maybe BJU a decade or two ago). Everyone tries to come across as a decent human being in their app. But the application really doesn't give an accurate idea of who you really are, unless school is your life. School isn't my life, it's a place I go because I know I have to go there before college. Most of my "living" takes place outside that 7 hour window. I've done well, sure, but I'm not Jian Li on paper. </p>
<p>I've spent a lot of my time in introspection and working on non-tangible things, like my own philosophies on life and my own interpretations of morality and religion. But it's not like I can write "Pondering: 80 hrs/wk" on my app. </p>
<p>Point is (haha I know I'm babbling...) is that there is no way you could ever keep even the most full fledged racist from being accepted or the most ideal candidate from being rejected. With a few hours of oversight, I could make a Neo-Nazi look like an eagle scout on paper... anyone with enough sense to self-censor ideas that could be controversial could write an essay worthy of bypassing the automatic rejection pile.</p>
<p>Honestly though, I don't know what I'm getting at so I'll stop here.</p>
<p>the parody wasn't written by me but its pure genius. its poking fun at several dimensions that i don't think a normal person would be able to write that comprehensively...</p>
<p>I don't know if this is true, but in my experience it seems like "falsifying" essays doesn't as work as well as we would like to think it does. I know all of the sappy stuff about "your voice" coming through in your essay seems dumb, but reading my essays again after I submitted them, I realized that they were so purely...me. Like, I wrote draft after draft and unintentionally tried to make myself seem more serious, more intellectual, whatever, and in the end my essays are as goofy and spontaneous and quirkily curious as I am.</p>
<p>And I feel like a really badly written Hallmark card or something right now, but basically, your idea that making a Neo-Nazi look like an Eagle Scout (and that is assuming that Eagle Scouts are all honorable and worthy people, which all of them that I know...are) seems like it might not be that easy.</p>
<p>Any decent fiction writer could do it... go ahead, give me some crazy assignment... I'll do it within the next week or so. I'm an affluent WASP kid, make me write from the perspective of an inner-city black kid who had to overcome a single-parent household to triumph over adversity. Make it crazy, I'll see if I can't pull it off.</p>
<p>I'm off to bed now, but I'm sure I'll be back here soon :).</p>
<p>Well, yeah, maybe any decent fiction writer could do it.</p>
<p>But these are college applications, not pieces of fiction.
I could never live with myself if I lied on something so important. Maybe that's really lame and "Girl Scout" of me, but still. Anybody who is a good writer could probably do what you are asking us to challenge you with, but anybody who is a good PERSON wouldn't.</p>