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The note that I remember that guy gave me was “don’t use the word ‘plethora’” because it sounded like an SAT word lol
He was right. Am how many times have I used the word plethora since that essay? 10?
This is true. The largest preferences are for what Harvard calls the “Dean’s Interest List.” This is for the children of celebrities, VIPs and donors.
Bill Frist Jr got into Princeton with below a 1200 SAT. Al Gore III got into Harvard with a similar record. Jared Kushner
You’re wrong, Ben. The way to get into college is to win your Eastern European country’s academic olympiad as a freshman in high school.
Now THAT’s easy.
i don't think trump voters would be surprised to learn the pecking order has nepo babies above minorities
But having a movie director parent and a parent who is a professor at Columbia didn’t get him into Columbia…
it helped that your dad is universally loved. prob doesn't have any who doesn't like him
The funny part is that he didn’t get into Columbia where his father was a professor and he tried to game their AA policy.
I think the best way to get into college is to apply to your local state university
Anyone can get into a high rated state school now. The university I went to has gone from 15% acceptance rate to 80%. They are selling space and degrees to foreign students . I heard the local food has improved!
Or just get decent scores on your SAT and go to a in-state extension university. You’ll get a better education and meet more interesting people. You’ll can actually afford it, which is a plus.
That is, indeed, the best way to get into college. However, since that is not available to 99.9% of people, the more common way is to be a favored minority.
My dad gave Harvard enough money to name a dorm. After that it was easy for me to go there. I get to sleep in the dorm that has my name on it. How cool is that.
I don't really understand what the professors are talking about but the chicks dig me. Who knows why?
This tweet by itself made me subscribe annually to your whatever.
Had a friend who didn’t think the documentary Napoleon Dynamite was funny
Private high school.
And yet there we were, working in the exact same place.
Fun to learn this year that David Lynch spent time with buddies exploding things around Boise….
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But his test scores mysteriously have been so bad that he still couldn’t get in.
Narrator: "Ben Dreyfuss is Jewish, member of a favored minority"
And he could only get into bowdoin! Not that bowdoin isn’t great but it isn’t Harvard
Everyone has an editor from a major publication on their contact list. So getting into college should be easy for everyone. lol
Also big extracurricular bonus points for dancing on burning police cars while wiping your ass with an American flag.
As a fellow nepo baby it’s kind of gross seeing you do this “pick me / I’m one of the good ones” dance for the unwashed masses in the cheap seats. Have some class solidarity, man.
Seems like a great way to get into a college filled with the dumbest and most insufferable people imaginable.
Now imagine if, not satisfied with those advantages plus your dad being a faculty member - you decided to try to game the system & take a seat intended for the systemically disadvantaged. See how that’s a kind of a big deal?
There are over 19 million college students in the United States. It may be difficult to get into a few select schools and disciplines, but most students who want to go to college can. You don't need to be wealthy and you don't need to be a genius.
True story, my child was interviewed at Georgetown by a politician alumni. Didn't get in. The kids daughter did. With lower stats, lower everything. Admissions should all be blind.
Imagine how utterly shitty your application has to be to get rejected when your mom is a famous movie director and your father is a professor at the college you're applying to
Is your father as big of a dickhead as he appears in every interview he's ever given?
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Wait. Stop. Zohran Mamdani went to Bronx Science (one of the country's top HS's), self-identified as African American on his app, had a parent who was a professor at Columbia, and STILL DIDN'T GET IN??
I need to see his SAT scores. I just became a Zohran Mamdani SAT truther.
*chefs kiss*
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Holy shit - Zohran Mamdani claimed to be black in his college application x.com/cremieuxrecuei…
The "So what if Zohran Mamdani appropriated and claimed to be African American to get into college" news cycle is going to be mindblowing.