<p>Well, I think it is fair to assume that the OP did not post a story that was filled with “what ifs.” He shared what happened and, in this case, shared that his daughter was rejected by 5 Ivies and Stanford. He also shared that 33 classmates did get the type of admissions she WANTED. It is also obvious that the choices that were described as OK or decent were not in the same league --pun intended. Anyone is entitled to add a number of scenarios to the bare facts, but it also remains clear that in 2003 Chicago was not as selective (a term that needs to be used in the strict context of college admissions and without fuzzy interpretations about quality of the students) as five or six Ivy League schools and Stanford. </p>
<p>The point of the thread is not about what could have happened, but really about what DID happen. And that is the clear power of the message of the OP. </p>
<p>Anyone is indeed entitled to his or her own set of speculations and opinions, but not to a different set of facts. Well, that is of course … MNSHO. :)</p>
<p>This thread is like unto a Simpsons episode, in that the starting point gave no clue as to the meandering, unexpected path it would eventually take.
Disclaimer-I live in the dreaded Northeast, land of elitism. But I also raise chickens. Our local school is lucky if 50-60% of graduates go to a 4yr. college. Yet there have been graduates who attended some of the top tier schools as well as Ivies. I also know one friend who graduated from both UChicago and Harvard, it must happen not infrequently.
This thread has given rise to extreme stereotyping and generalities . The thread has been somewhat humorous, but I believe that the OP intended a helpful homilie, which has been tortured into unrecognizable form.
I now have to go outside and retrieve a pogo stick which my wife has mistakenly left out for garbage pick up.(Insert smiley face here.)</p>
<p>People Who Overvalue HYPS
People Who Undervalue HYPS
People Who Claim To Undervalue HYPS But Secretly Don’t
People Who Hate People Who Overvalue HYPS
People Who Hate People Who Undervalue HYPS
People Who Hate Themselves For Overvaluing HYPS
People Who Ridiculously Overvalue The University of Chicago
People Who Merely Overvalue The University of Chicago Somewhat
People Who Overvalue The University of Chicago But Remember It Was Kind Of A Safety School in 2004
People Who Undervalue The University of Chicago
People Who Hate People Who Overvalue The University of Chicago
People Who Hate People Who Undervalue The University of Chicago
People Who Confuse The University of Chicago With The University of Illinois at Chicago
People In Awe Of Rhodes Scholars
Parents Of Rhodes Scholars
People Who Are Jealous Of The Parents Of Rhodes Scholars
People Who Suspect That If Their Kids Were Ivy Rejects And Not Rhodes Scholars, Maybe They Really Are Poop
People Who Suspect That They Are Poop If Their Kids Were Ivy Rejects And Not Rhodes Scholars
People Who Suspect That All Of This Is A Conspiracy To Exclude Asians
People Who Overvalue Newton And Cambridge Rindge & Latin
People Who Say “What’s A Rindge? What Do Cookies Have To Do With All This?”</p>
<p>Membership in more than one team is obviously permitted.</p>
<p>Actually, “Parents of Rhodes Scholars” get no credit unless they post something provocative on CC. :)</p>
<p>Parents get more credit in a marriage announcement. </p>
<p>You have any idea how it felt the day after D won when the local paper called, I answered, and they wanted nothing to do with me, the parent? It was like someone toxic answered the phone. </p>
<p>So, am I hostile? Still bitter over the rejection? Of course. Not at the ivies, not by Yale, her dream school. At the world that does not even acknowledge that these winners have parents. The injustice of it all!</p>
<p>(for the record, the facts are true, the emotions and conclusions are joking…)</p>
<p>So, JHS, nothing to be jealous here. She gets the stipend. She gets the fame. She gets the good job later. What do we parents get? Big phone bills.</p>
<p>I feel a bit left out, though, I’m <em>maybe</em> on <em>one</em> of those teams. It’s possible, I suppose, that I Slightly Overvalue U/Chicago but I can also enthuse at length about Yale, Swat, Reed, Tufts, and the queen of them all, Smith College.</p>
<p>Huh. I never realized before. What they have in common is a higher than average Q factor. Well I’ll be dipped. Says more about the observer than the observed.</p>
<p>JHS: Is there any danger of overvaluing Cambridge Rindge and Latin? I’m sure the School Committee would like to hear from folks! Now, when we toured LACs in NE, we tripped over Newton North and Newton South graduates everywhere we went.</p>
<p>But thanks for the list and the laugh!</p>
<p>NMD: You should be thankful you get big phone bills! Do go and read the threads by parents complaining that their kid (usually of the male persuasion) never calls. :)</p>
I’m sure the School Committee would like to hear from folks!