<p>Dateline: Bakersfield, California
"Vivian Ku is driven, yet humble."</p>
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<p>Why does everyone these days seem to be pre-med? :cool:</p>
<p>its funny, because they'll only do these kind of things in small towns. In places like the SF Bay Area or NYC, you will NEVER hear about kids getting into harvard or such. I guess its more of a phenomenon in small areas since they rarely have people so ambitious.</p>
<p>And also, in small towns, there aren't many truly news-worthy items, so kids getting into Harvard is considered a "breaking story". In huge cities, what paper would bother to write about college admissions, when there's stuff like terrorism, natural disasters, etc. occuring on a daily basis?</p>
<p>This year alone, I have seen such stories in larger papers ranging from Atlanta to Minneapolis to Columbus (OH) to Portland (OR) to Dallas.</p>
<p>Usually, the stories are cast as moral tales: work hard, and ye shall be rewarded!</p>
<p>"work hard, and ye shall be rewarded!"</p>
<p>LOL. If only life were that simple. From what I've seen, some of the hardest working students are the ones who get utterly screwed over by the college admissions process.</p>
<p>It's not just in small towns. At least one article (front page, full color) was in the Korea Times, which is an int'l newspaper that prints in New York, Los Angeles, Seoul, and other smaller areas. But then again Koreans are different, since they're very crazed.</p>
<p>I should print out that article and give it to the newspaper staff at my school. That has to be one of the most poorly written articles that I have ever read. The sentences are extremely elementary, and most of the quoted material is really unnecessary. Ex: "She's nice... she's incredibly friendly... It wasn't too bad."</p>
<p>Do you have a LINK to that story in the Korea Times?</p>
<p>Here's the link, but it's in Korean. It shows up on my computer, but you probably can't see if if you don't have Korean character recognition software. The article is in the archive in the Korean version of the website, but not in the English archive.</p>
<p>Also, the photo is not in the archived article, but it was definitely in the printed version and perhaps in the article when it was still recent (I think I remember seeing it, but I'm not sure).</p>
<p>Say, a regional paper writes an article about a student being accepted to top colleges and asks his/her school to comment. And the school is quoted in the article: "Nice job, but nothing special for a student of our school".
Does it sound OK?</p>
<p>no......jk</p>
<p>PM me for a link to the article.</p>
<p>Do you have it in English?</p>
<p>Yes, it is a regular regional paper in CT. I wll PM you the link.</p>
<p>I pm'd you my reaction.</p>
<p>That is just plain arrogant (the school official).</p>