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― gershy, Friday, 10 August 2007 06:46 (seventeen years ago) link
oops, that was from the nellie mckay article also "kookily eclectic"
― gershy, Friday, 10 August 2007 06:48 (seventeen years ago) link
it's true that Jersey=D.C. and Wyoming=Montana, although I think I got the better deal.
― Maria :D, Friday, 10 August 2007 06:51 (seventeen years ago) link
no need to blush just keep on' postin'!
― hstencil, Friday, 10 August 2007 07:13 (seventeen years ago) link
it's like... reverse economic racism!
j/k
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 10 August 2007 09:07 (seventeen years ago) link
But there's another side to that: I was told to my face in an admissions interview that if I didn't get into that school it would be because I did not have an alumni relation. On the one hand, this might not have happened if my grades/math SAT/I dunno something had been a little better. On the other hand, it still kinda sucks to be told that.
BUT I am still one of those lucky people who is going to school for about a tenth of what the actual cost is. Being poor is awesome sometimes!
― jessie monster, Friday, 10 August 2007 13:43 (seventeen years ago) link
omg hilarious-head xp so good
― Surmounter, Friday, 10 August 2007 14:05 (seventeen years ago) link
I was told to my face in an admissions interview that if I didn't get into that school it would be because I did not have an alumni relation.
i have a legacy at princeton going back 3+ generations on both sides of my family (if youve ever met anyone who went to princeton youll know that this is not bragging) and they rejected the shit out of me. the sense i got was mostly just that they didnt care about pleasing my parents or grandparents because none of them ever donated any $$.
― max, Friday, 10 August 2007 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link
so, the legacy thing only works if your relatives are pledging ca$h
― max, Friday, 10 August 2007 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link
it's amazing the lengths that parents go to to get their kids into fancy schools! moving across the country, etc. my boss has kids going into 6th and 7th grade and endlessesly obsesses over which middle and high schools to send them to (the application processes sound very college-like) and already has contacted private college guidance counsellors.
this is the kind of shit that makes me never want to have kids.
― bell_labs, Friday, 10 August 2007 14:28 (seventeen years ago) link
esp if u live in a particular town, it gets evil. junior year is scary shit. u don't wanna run into a mom whose daughter just got rejected from Cornell.
i remember hunting the mailman down in his mail vehicle on my block in anticipation of my letters. when he handed me to fat ones, i just started screaming. was in the best friend's beemer. oh LONG ISLAND I MISS YOU MUCH
― Surmounter, Friday, 10 August 2007 14:32 (seventeen years ago) link
we moved to Montana and attended PUBLIC schools. It's not like every waking hour was focused on the pursuit of college. Shit, we were the only students in the whole high school who went east to college and had to inform our guidance counselors about the schools. I was one of two kids in my class to take the SATs and had to travel 60 miles to do them. Didn't occur to me to have another try at them. I'm sure that if I'd said I didn't want to go to college at all, my mom would have accepted it. For her, it was about giving kids from a low-income family good chances. Good college does really improve your life. I agree that it's possible to get an excellent educatin at less expensive colleges and I agree that parents often go overboard about it. Nonetheless, trying really hard to give your kids good chances is not something to be unconditionally scorned.
― Maria :D, Friday, 10 August 2007 14:55 (seventeen years ago) link
ha ha i got an educatin
― Maria :D, Friday, 10 August 2007 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link
oh i'm not scorning it, the entire process just kind of terrifies me.
― bell_labs, Friday, 10 August 2007 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link
but so do many other things about child-rearing. i think it is just perhaps best that i never reproduce.
― bell_labs, Friday, 10 August 2007 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link
cuz of the money alone surely
― Surmounter, Friday, 10 August 2007 15:00 (seventeen years ago) link
i only had to go about five minutes away to take the sat, and once was enough for me.
― hstencil, Friday, 10 August 2007 15:09 (seventeen years ago) link
I would like to spawn in bozeman, I think
― El Tomboto, Friday, 10 August 2007 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link
Livingston is much prettier, and just over the pass.
Bozeman's pop. is like 45k right now and is expected to hit 100k+ in about 15 years. Bozeangels, LOL.
Seriously, it's beautiful here, but the development is atrocious. Mixed what?
― river wolf, Friday, 10 August 2007 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah, I should just go found my own town in WY who wants to move in?
― El Tomboto, Friday, 10 August 2007 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link
Ooh, actually, just move to Lander, WY!
― river wolf, Friday, 10 August 2007 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm kind of fascinated by the idea of ILX all picking up and founding a remote western settlement. Probable collapse within in 3 weeks though.
― Hurting 2, Friday, 10 August 2007 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Can we rename Lander to Villa Del Tomboto y/n
― El Tomboto, Friday, 10 August 2007 18:08 (seventeen years ago) link
move to idaho, start a polygamous commune, spawn hundreds of children and send them all to ivy league schools!
― bell_labs, Friday, 10 August 2007 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link
I think you will hacve to take that up with Lander, TOMBOT
― river wolf, Friday, 10 August 2007 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link
Ilx Barre
― Hurting 2, Friday, 10 August 2007 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link
Etna, Wyo., is a wonderful town of pop. 300 or so. You could work doing cryptology shit for the Freedom Arms Gun Company hq, located in that town. There's also a crazy bison preserve there. It's in a beautiful valley and you can buy "illegal fireworks" such as firecrackers & bottle rockets all year round. Plus cigs (ie Camels) are on avg. $3/pack. GO FOR IT.
― Abbott, Friday, 10 August 2007 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link
a strong temptation
― El Tomboto, Friday, 10 August 2007 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link
There seem to be a few semi-ghost towns in the west where you could move in your family and a few friends and elect yourself Mayor/Dictator for Life.
― milo z, Friday, 10 August 2007 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link
There's a polygamous community about a mile from my old house. We could all move in there. My mom still owns the house. We could live in my old house (10 acres, a pond, room for more outbuildings) and commute to the polygamous community down the road. Except I would never want to live there again. But you guys maybe could. Hamilton. It's beeeeyoootifully located in the foothills of the bitterroot mountains. My town has been turned into a big kmart.
― Maria :D, Friday, 10 August 2007 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Bone, Idaho goes up for sale periodically. Yes, the entire town. Hilariously enough, Southeast Idaho rumors claim Vin Diesel lives there.
― Abbott, Friday, 10 August 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh wait, sorry, that article is hella stupid and sentimental and barely about Bone at all. Pretty much the only representation of the town I can find is here (big image. That is he bar/general store, the other is an RV someone uses as a house. "BONE - POPULATION 2"
― Abbott, Friday, 10 August 2007 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.boneville.com/wp-content/uploads/BONE%20OVE%20Poster.jpg
― river wolf, Friday, 10 August 2007 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/16/yale-harvard-law-taking-over-supreme-court/
I know this isn't 'news' but this image is o_O
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/07/15/business/economy/economix-15scotusto1950/economix-15scotusto1950-custom2.jpg
― iatee, Saturday, 17 July 2010 14:08 (fourteen years ago) link
one more one more one more one more
― dyao, Saturday, 17 July 2010 15:47 (fourteen years ago) link
meh. even if they stopped giving new SC appointments to Harvard or Yale Law grads, it isn't as if they're going to start appointing, oh i dunno, Rutgers or Brooklyn or Temple Law grads to the Court (even if the nominee was valedictorian). look at the shit that Harriet Myers caught simply because she "only" went to Southern Methodist (well, there were other [more important] reasons why she was unsuitable to be on the Supreme Court -- but the fact that she didn't go to an Ivy law school wasn't one of them in my mind anyway).
― The Beatles are not pizza!!! (Eisbaer), Sunday, 18 July 2010 01:44 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean, CJ Rehnquist and Justice O'Connor were both Stanford grads -- and Stanford might just as well be Harvard or Yale as far as the über-elitist in the lawyer world care.
― The Beatles are not pizza!!! (Eisbaer), Sunday, 18 July 2010 01:45 (fourteen years ago) link
but that's the thing - the fact that even the Stanford/Chicago/Columbia/etc. elite aren't represented is why this has become...well, strange? but yeah I think a lot of it has to do with how the nomination process has changed over time.
Harvard/Yale is - maybe more than ever? - the gold standard when it comes to American credentialism. Obama's Harvard degree got more attention than his Columbia one, I think.
― iatee, Sunday, 18 July 2010 01:57 (fourteen years ago) link
college/grad school pedigree not as important for prez candidates generally
― buzza, Sunday, 18 July 2010 02:34 (fourteen years ago) link
hasn't been a non-harvard/yale pres since the 80s or even nominee since...bob dole?
― iatee, Sunday, 18 July 2010 02:37 (fourteen years ago) link
guess we should all be happy that palin is getting the nom then
― dyao, Sunday, 18 July 2010 02:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm voting for her just to break the streak
― iatee, Sunday, 18 July 2010 02:41 (fourteen years ago) link
oh wait I forgot about mccain oops
vietnam prison was his harvard
― iatee, Sunday, 18 July 2010 02:51 (fourteen years ago) link
http://rachelmarsden.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/bush_rugby.jpg
― dyao, Sunday, 18 July 2010 02:53 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.quickanded.com/2010/11/why-not-yale.html
― iatee, Sunday, 14 November 2010 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/8/30/academic-dishonesty-ad-board/
― iatee, Friday, 31 August 2012 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I have been boggling at that on Facebook
the most intersting comment was "was this rampant cheating or a really terrible teacher creating confusion" and the sad thing is that I could easily see either or some combination of both being true
― Lil Swayne of Pie (DJP), Friday, 31 August 2012 01:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/opinion/elite-colleges-are-as-foreign-as-mars.html
― i've a cozy little flat in what is known as old man hat (Hurting 2), Monday, 1 April 2013 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
Until then, is it any wonder that students in Pahrump and throughout rural America are more likely to end up in Afghanistan than at N.Y.U.?
you are less likely to end up dead at nyu but it's def ruined some lives
― iatee, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 02:23 (eleven years ago) link
For deans of admissions brainstorming what they can do to remedy this, might I suggest: anything.
niiice
― attempt to look intentionally nerdy, awkward or (thomp), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 02:27 (eleven years ago) link