<p>After reading this thread, I read the article. I expected some of these candidates to be mediocre. Sometimes you can read a lot of nonsense on CC. Anybody that says these students aren't strong candidates does not have the intellectual capacity to be a strong candidate.</p>
<p>well, some are and some aren't</p>
<p>dstark: Gee, you may be right. Maybe my D didn't do all those thngs I said she did. Maybe it was all a dream, like J.R. getting shot, but I'm still betting on TheDad.</p>
<p>(I'm supremely confident it ain't me. That's why I'm having fun playing with the noose.;))</p>
<p>Sometimes the noose ends up around the neck of the wrong person. :)</p>
<p>How do you make the little face with the wink?</p>
<p>Make a ; and then a )</p>
<p>Thanks.......</p>
<p>Well, it ain't me! I'm the proud momma who proclaims that her son only got of the couch this last summer, (and he's a senior this year :eek:), and has an EC list that's, well, let's just say that it is a little bit less than impressive!! :) (but such a sweet boy. If colleges can't see that, well, tough for them.)</p>
<p>One resident of our little tight knitted community pm'ed me to give up my suspicion but like I told that poster(gotta be gender neutral here), "not gonna dew it(in a Dana Carvey GHWB drawl)."</p>
<p>I think most of us long timers @ CC do have a lot of fun with the goings on here and hope our experiences help others here particularly newbies. But there are some that go to such extremes to guard their anonymity that their postings are not so helpful. Others, in an attempt to give more specific advice can and do sacrifice their anonymity to a good google search. I know that is the case with me and the posting about my son. But that is okay because so what if you can identify him, that just confirms my postings and may help others even more. However most posters fall somewhere in between which is probably best.</p>
<p>Anyhow, keep up the good work everyone and lets continue having fun with it.</p>
<p>And I'm going to continue to P.M. you, too. Rats, I mean.... I bet that poster will continue to P.M. you, too. Poke. Poke. ;)</p>
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Others, in an attempt to give more specific advice can and do sacrifice their anonymity to a good google search. I know that is the case with me and the posting about my son.
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Not me, no sirree. I am secret agent man. Can't break into my vault of personal knowledge. Uh-uh. It's as secret as our nuclear papers at Los Alamos. Wait...even more secret than that. That's already on the internet.:eek: </p>
<p>Who could ever find a tall Texas freshman female at Rhodes who won the Bellingrath , was the val of her high school, turned down Yale, won the state bball championship, quit the BBall team after making it, plays Ultimate Frisbee, is a Bio major, in a sorority, raises goats sheep and deer and can shoot a shotgun? I bet there are hundreds of kids fitting that general description. Who will ever slog through that ? </p>
<p>As I shared with MOWC, our kids (along with several others) are tagged for life. Aaaah, who cares? Gives her something else to tell the shrink. Like she needed any more.</p>
<p>I do believe in sharing info in order to help others, and it has only come back to bite me on one forum, which is not related to sports or college. I made some big errors and underestimated the ability of some true psychos to track IP addresses. I wound up with some cyber-stalkers who even followed me to this forum, but were promptly banned. So-just a warning. It's not all warm and fuzzy out here in cyberspace.</p>
<p>MOWC: I'm so sorry!!!! I hope they don't come here again.
Ever :(</p>
<p>Can you really get outside lessons for ping pong?</p>
<p>I'm sure you can. I highly doubt that it will have an impact on the college admissions process. Ping pong is one of those sports that you might see being played competitively on an obscure cable channel. I did once see it on ESPN though. </p>
<p>Another one of these sports is wiffle ball. Many consider it a backyard game, but there are actually competitive leagues for it. I know because I played in one (I'm not in any way bragging. My team wasn't exactly a powerhouse. We finished 6-10).</p>
<p>Wouldn't be proo-dent loogie.</p>
<p>I've posted enough info about my son that over the summer someone from another state told him that he'd read all about him on this forum -- I was a bit red-faced. With about five seconds of googling, if you put my posts together, you could get not only my son's name but pictures as well. Oh well. I didn't know how else to get helpful info without giving specifics. I had worried his college counselor would read some of my posts and wonder why I wasn't asking her the questions -- but when in a meeting I used the word "adcom" and she didn't know what that meant I figured she probably wasn't a regular on CC.</p>
<p>Interesting. I think these kids have very nice stats. I thought there would be more 2300-2400 SAT scores (because of the title). </p>
<p>I'd like to see a follow up in twenty years to see how many of these students are equally impressive (and mentally stable) adults. Also, what colleges they did attend. Many of these students seriously need to add safeties (and no not Cornell...)</p>
<p>I loved this so much, I posted it at the UVA forum since two of the profiles listed UVA albeit as their last choice. I noted that I had copied it from the parent's forum.
Thanks for giving me a neat alternative to post to those usual "chance" postings. I am very glad I never saw this last year at this time when we were waiting for the ED results for our child. (yes - admitted )</p>
<p>I agree with you, re-nuh. I, too, was worried that the kids seemed to have top-heavy lists. Given the competitive nature of admissions these days, no one's a sure admit at many of the schools these kids listed. Hope they add some other schools they will love if these schools don't work out. With their numbers and ECs, they should be in fine shape for merit money at other schools.</p>
<p>It's hard for "super applicant" kids not to have a top heavy list. If you have a 2300+ SAT, 4+ GPA, and great ECs, why wouldn't you expect to go to a top school? Five years ago, you probably would have. It's hard to accept the harsh realities of the new number's game. This is the situation my son and a lot of his friends are in. Pretty much everyone he knows who's graduating this year would be considered super in one way or another -- national recognition in art, music, or athletics, incredible summer internships or academic experiences, national awards in math or science, etc. Twenty-four of these kids are applying early to Yale, another 29 to Penn, and so on. Someone's not getting into their first choice! So they have to come up with safeties, but what is an acceptable safety if you think you "should" get into Ivy?</p>
<p>it's hard being really super these days!!!</p>