<p>** I edited the other post after your edit because my preceeding post was less clear when you added your other comment, so addressed both comments.</p>
<p>“The saddest thing in this entire thread is this poster is missing a really great parenting moment. You know, the one where you impart to your children how fortunate they are because they come from a stable family with enough money to give them some advantages in life, or at the very least a clean and safe home with healthy food and medical care, with parents who value education and support their children academically, who raise them to have a sense of ethical and moral behavior…etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Instead, there’s some poor ninth grader out there who’s being raised to think that it’s somehow an advantage to have hardships.”</p>
<p>:::::::::Applause::::::::::</p>
<p>There’s zero sense of humanity (and that’s coming from me, not exactly Empathy Central, LOL).<br>
“When I see someone who has endured hardships – broken family, extreme poverty, poor choices made by parents – my reaction is to be really resentful and jealous because they might stand in the way of ME getting into Stanford.” </p>
<p>Way to go. All the 4.0’s and 2400’s don’t mean a darn thing if you think like that.</p>
<p>Then shouldn’t it be Social And Economic Status (SAES?) or Social And Or Economic Status (SAOES)?
“Social Economic” is not the same as Social and/or Economic", is it? Doesn’t social modify economic?
(calling all English experts…)</p>
<p>I think when we find ourselves in a situation where parents are allowing admissions committees to tell them how to raise their children the whole world has pretty much gone crazy.</p>
<p>Oh well, that is probably along the lines of the Department of Education turning into ED. Perhaps we should start a thread about bad acronyms. Does the the Sioux City Gateway Airport really deserve to be called SUX? </p>
<p>Anyhow, to stay on the topic, why would anyone be crazy enough to apply to a small school in Boston that offers such as plethora of poor acronyms: </p>
<p>socioeconomics is aka socio-economics, so SES works in the strict sense of creating acronyms. </p>
<p>And hey, this is interesting: SS (in the Nazi SS sense, agree that this is why we really can’t use SS for anything else) comes from Schutzstaffel, German for “protective squadron”, so it’s not a “proper” acronym. But German words come Lego-like from sticking individual words together, so maybe it really is OK. But only in German. </p>
<p>As the discussion kept going around and around in circles, I think we’re all exhausted. I found the off-topic distractions at least somewhat entertaining - and less overwrought.</p>
<p>"This explains a lot to me about both this thread and College Confidential in general.</p>
<p>To get back on topic…ahh forget it."</p>
<p>Yes, what it says is that we have delightful senses of humor and don’t take ourselves too seriously. Yes, we’re Very Aware that certain people think that Certain Schools Are the Meaning of Life and it’s a Travesty If Acceptance Isn’t Guaranteed, but we can all pretty much laugh at it in the final analysis.</p>
<p>“In an effort to get back on topic, (EDIT: not referring to you @BassGuitar) I have checked various Common Data Sets of “prestigious” colleges over the past few months and all the ones I have come across indicate that “racial/ethnic status” is considered. This is not tantamount to a conclusion that any school discriminates of course, but parents should double check the CDS of the schools being targeted to verify this point if it is relevant to your situation and may be a contributor to stress or “craziness””</p>
<p>Wow. Such paranoia. If you see that geographic location is considered, do you get paranoid that colleges are discriminating against people in Massachusetts or California? </p>