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i could get it w/o lifting a finger.... it's called affirmative action
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<p>Now you've gone from being incompetent poster to an offensive one. I'm sure many minorities would not look favorably on that comment.</p>
<p>Please get off your own high horse, and realize that intelligent people go to top schools. Letters from ivies mean nothing.</p>
<p>And why are you categorizing full price to an Ivy as a silver metal, and a full tuition scholarship to another top school as a gold metal? Ever consider that perhaps the Ivy, which tend to be known to give great FA packages, would be cheaper to attend?</p>
<p>are you a minority in the college world (black/hispanic/native american)???? no.... so don't speak for any,.i am.... and i am speaking like many minorities... where i live speak... ivy won't give a dime.... to me.... cause of my parent's salary.</p>
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are you a minority in the college world (black/hispanic/native american)???? no.... so don't speak for any,.i am.... and i am speaking like many minorities... where i live speak... ivy won't give a dime.... to me.... cause of my parent's salary.
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<p>How are you in any position to speculate on my ethnicity?</p>
<p>here is your quote: "I'm sure many minorities would not look favorably on that comment." and from this...... you are not implicating yourself as one...</p>
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here is your quote: "I'm sure many minorities would not look favorably on that comment." and from this...... you are not implicating yourself as one...
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<p>Just because I said that many minorities wouldn't appreciate that comment doesn't mean that I am not one. Don't make assumptions. For the record though, I am not a minority. That does not make your comments any less disturbing to me.</p>
<p>please listen and learn... i not only mentioned my race... i said i have good APs, (class rigor), ECs, leadership, GPA, etc....... stop trying to isolate comments.... look at the entire picture...</p>
<p>you are not... so stop trying to front as one... no minority would speak of themselves in the 3rd person way that you did..... i'm done... with this discussion go bother someone else.</p>
<p>first of all, I don't get why the f you differentiate between the ivies and caltech, duke, chicago, UWash-St. Louis??? The latter are equally hard to get into (more or less), have the same calibre student body, resources and facilities. If your claim is that these non-ivy league schools are just as good as the ivy league then you are right. However, if you claim that just about any other school is just as good as an ivy, then you are VERY wrong.</p>
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you are not... so stop trying to front as one... no minority would speak of themselves in the 3rd person way that you did..... i'm done... with this discussion go bother someone else.
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<p>Ethicity was never a factor in the original discussion. You made it one, claming you could get into an Ivy because of affirmative action.</p>
<p>In my opinion the ivies aren't much better than the top 20-25 universities in the nation (US news). After that you can see a significant gap in the quality. I don't know if you're in college or not but there is a SIGNIFICANT difference in quality between students of lets say Princeton and Rutgers.</p>
<p>I'd just like to state that I don't believe the ivies are in the league of their own, just so the OP knows this. They are certainly up there with the best, but not the only top schools, far from it.</p>
<p>1) Please apply to a couple of Ivies when you're going through applications, to confirm or disabuse us of our guesses concerning your likely success at those schools.</p>
<p>2) Stop Capitalizing Every Word In Your Posts. It's Bad English, And Makes Your Posts Look Terrible. (The fact that I just capitalized every word there was sarcasm, by the way)</p>
<p>3) Please respond to this: if you take a student of given determination, motivation, desire to succeed, and so on, and stick him/her in a top school (the Ivies, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, UChicago, etc.), he/she will do better than in a lesser school. This principle is known as ceteris paribus; keep everything constant except what we're looking to vary - namely the prestige/reputation of the school. Do you disagree with the statement I made here?</p>
<p>GAclassof2008: No one will dispute that someone can be successful at a school other than an Ivy (or other top school). No one. But you would be ignorant to suggest that a student who is choosing between a top school and a lesser school should go to the lesser school (assuming the top school has a better program for the student's interests, finances aren't a problem, etc.)</p>