<p>Hilarious column in the Wall Street Journal
Suzy</a> Lee Weiss: To (All) the Colleges That Rejected Me - WSJ.com</p>
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By SUZY LEE WEISS</p>
<p>Like me, millions of high-school seniors with sour grapes are asking themselves this week how they failed to get into the colleges of their dreams. It's simple: For years, they—we—were lied to.</p>
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<p>Love this kid.</p>
<p>Can’t read it. Don’t have a subscription :(</p>
<p>If you Google the title, you will be able to open the article</p>
<p>^ Thank you. She hit the nail on the head.</p>
<p>I guess I lack the magic touch. I googled it and just get redirected to the WSJ, where I can’t read it. Can you post some excerpts?</p>
<p>Methinks Ms. Weiss is an excellent writer!</p>
<p>Great writing. But the truth of the matter is she could have had all of the dreamed of attributes and still gotten rejected by the tippy top colleges.</p>
<p>This was awesome. My dh handed me the article to read this morning. Heck, she must have applied to the wrong colleges 'cause with her writing talents, she should have been snatched up by all her colleges. :-)</p>
<p>Wherever she’s headed to school next year , that’s where I’m directing my kid. What a funny and insightful piece of writing!</p>
<p>Very good writing, really enjoyed it. Now I really wonder who accepted/rejected her?</p>
<p>Thanks for sharing! Great piece - and whatever college she is going to is LUCKY to have her!</p>
<p>I know. I would love to know where Ms. Weiss girl is going. What a tremendous writer, and it looks like the college that snatched her up is lucky to have her.</p>
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<p>Dad here…sounds to me like a spoiled rich kid upset that she didn’t get her way. As a father of a hard working, academically dedicated URM and lgbtq child who got into quite a few of the tippy top institutions, I laugh at these lazy “privileged” kids and parents stomping on sour grapes. </p>
<p>…lol what a Rocky III moment</p>
<p>@jsmathwiz - WOW… Are you serious? It’s not nice to “laugh” at someone’s disappointment. What goes around comes around, you know?</p>
<p>Reminds me of when I looked into having my daughter “volunteer” at the children’s hospital here in Washington DC. The requirements: two references, resume including EC’s, interest questions, and a personal interview. Huh? They would only take a cohort of 40 for the summer. </p>
<p>Isn’t it amazing that demand exceeds supply for volunteering at a hospital? What a generous country. An excess of HS kids trying to check off the community service box for college applications, including us!</p>
<p>“she should have been snatched up by all her colleges”. Um, we know nothing about her GPA, SAT, the rigor of her curriculum, recommendations… no?</p>
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<p>In a lot of school systems, you need to put in a minimum number of community service hours just to graduate, whether you plan to go to college or not.</p>
<p>I read this this morning, before it went behind the pay-wall. As somebody who was rejected from a few insanely selective schools and admitted into a couple of still pretty selective schools, I wwas struck by the bitterness and satire in the essay that seemed to have no real backing. I think that this article, of all of these ‘types’ that are circulated, was far less realistic and sensitive than it could have been. It wasn’t funny to me, just bitter. Yes, there are issues with the way college admissions works, and she didn’t seem to understand any of them.</p>