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Rejected...No entrance Admissions letters from prep schools put parents on edge
boston.com ^
| March 13, 2005
| By Douglas Belkin, Globe Staff |
Posted on 03/15/2005 7:38:37 AM PST by paltz
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posted on
03/15/2005 7:38:38 AM PST
by
paltz
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To: paltz
Okay, schadenfreude is a sin, I guess ... but I just can't feel any sympathy for people who set themselves up for this. What a sense of entitlement you must have, to believe that a 10% (or less) probability is guaranteed to fall your way.
But I have to say I admire the chutzpah of the father who, when the admissions office said, "We just don't have any more (boarding school) beds," answered, "Fine, I'll build you another dorm!"
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posted on
03/15/2005 7:49:19 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
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To: paltz
The rich and different. More irritating.
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posted on
03/15/2005 7:56:49 AM PST
by
Mamzelle
To: Mamzelle
Duh...the rich ARE different. Guess you can tell who didn't go to a posh private school...
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posted on
03/15/2005 7:57:39 AM PST
by
Mamzelle
To: Tax-chick
Maybe he should have considered building a whole other school. Then he could guarantee admission for his child. :)
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posted on
03/15/2005 8:01:45 AM PST
by
TwoWolves
(The only kind of control the liberals don't want is self control.)
To: paltz
> For Andi O'Hearn, director of admissions at Lawrence Academy in Groton, the hardest calls begin: ''My child was up crying all night; do you know what you've done?"
Proper answer: "Confirmed that your child is too immature to withstand the rigors of the real world, and is thus not what we are looking for to admit to our fine institution."
To: paltz
four out of five of those letters begin with words like "We regret to inform you that. . ." No need to read the letter -- fat envelope means your in; thin envelope means back to your old day school you prole.
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posted on
03/15/2005 8:04:25 AM PST
by
Jeff F
To: cwiz24
NE Prep School story ping, without comment.
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posted on
03/15/2005 8:07:30 AM PST
by
Fierce Allegiance
(“Every time a system is made foolproof - a new class of fool emerges.”)
To: TwoWolves
Good thought ... but it's the name and snob appeal of these schools that the parents are after, not the educational value. These families could hire tutors in every subject with the money they're spending on tuition.
They don't seem to realize that the system has changed. The colleges they want to get into, out of these prep schools, aren't taking every rich New Englander with good grades any more ... they want "diversity."
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posted on
03/15/2005 8:09:03 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
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To: paltz
It is especially nice that the chickens are coming home to roost in New England, Liberal Lala Land. Their kids are getting bumped to make room for a less qualified student so that the school can have diversity. Ever hear of Affirmative action guys? That is what you have been preaching for the rest of us.
What is wrong with the public schools to which you are limiting the rest of us by opposing vouchers?
Oh yeah, what about those windmills? Is the electricity they make not good enough for you? Surely you wouldn't let such a thing as personal preference get in the way of a greater good for all.
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posted on
03/15/2005 8:11:23 AM PST
by
Mind-numbed Robot
(Not all things that need to be done need to be done by the government.)
To: Jeff F
Or, if a postcard comes, you know you're really screwed.
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posted on
03/15/2005 8:12:35 AM PST
by
cwiz24
(I worked very hard on this tagline.)
To: paltz
"...dishing out more and more of that disappointment as the demographic bubble of baby-boomers' babies enter adolescence and increase the number of applications to private schools,"
Huh? Unless I missed something I thought that the baby-boomers' kids would have gotten those rejections in the 80's and 90's.
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posted on
03/15/2005 8:12:45 AM PST
by
Sam's Army
(No witty taglines currently come to mind)
To: paltz
My father used to deal with these folks. Through hard work and dedication he achieved a position as a GS 15 in his 30's. (at least I think it was GS 15, in any event, it was a very high level job with the BLM in the 70's.)
He referred to them as "Paper People".
They look great on paper but they are less then useless on the job.
They are brought up thinking they are 32 flavors of superior then they get into the real world and have to deal with the reality that rote memorization and regurgitation of information is no longer a particularly valuable skill.
They are so used to parroting and aping the behavior of their parents and teachers that they have no ability to PROCESS the information.
That's what matters nowadays. Computers can do a far better job of handling information then the most photographic and devoloped of human memories.
What I'd like to know these "Brahmin Children" stack up against home schoolers.
My money's on the homeschoolers.
To: Sam's Army
The youngest "baby boomers" were born in 1962, by the most commonly-used dating. Kids born in these parents' 20's and 30's are teenagers now. (My husband was born in 1962. Our oldest daughter, born when he was 28, is 14.)
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posted on
03/15/2005 8:16:25 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
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To: Tax-chick
The colleges they want to get into, out of these prep schools, aren't taking every rich New Englander with good grades any more ... they want "diversity."True, but who do you think they use to fill the "white" slots? They certainly don't want any of that red-state white trash about!
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posted on
03/15/2005 8:17:31 AM PST
by
FormerLib
(Kosova: "land stolen from Serbs and given to terrorist killers in a futile attempt to appease them.")
To: orionblamblam
Hmm, all three of my sons went to Lawrence. The town where I live has one of the best public school systems in MA, but back when my kids were high school age, the local high school experimented with no discipline and open classrooms. The new principal was writing his PhD., using the town's experience as fodder. Needless to say, kids ran amok, flushed coats down toilets, did whatever came into their little heads except hit the books...bullying was rife.
So my kids went to Lawrence, and it was worth it. The eldest went to MIT at fifteen, and his years at Lawrence were, I think, typical of what they try to do. Small classes, and they offer learning at the pace of each student. So, within one classroom, you might have three groups: average kids, athletes/maybe not so motivated kids, and self starters. So many kids left the public school system during those years it was an exodus and eventuated in wholescale reform. When they started MCAS testing, (each kid now has to pass to get a high school diploma, my town topped the state.) (We were far from rich, by the way, and Lawrence offered great scholarship help.)
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posted on
03/15/2005 8:24:46 AM PST
by
hershey
To: KC_Conspirator
A little envy here?
Why would you care enough to make such a comment about someone else's 18 yr. old?
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posted on
03/15/2005 8:24:57 AM PST
by
OldFriend
("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child might have peace." Thomas Paine)
To: Tax-chick
I guess that would fit. All my peers are baby-boomer kids and we graduated in the 80's.
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posted on
03/15/2005 8:25:08 AM PST
by
Sam's Army
(No witty taglines currently come to mind)
To: FormerLib
They certainly don't want any of that red-state white trash about!LOL! You're right ... but there just aren't enough "white-people" seats in the colleges for everyone who's "qualified," just as there aren't enough prep-school spaces for all the students whose parents think they should go there. It just seems so pointless to me. (I'm sure all the kids would say they're "noncomformists," too!)
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posted on
03/15/2005 8:27:34 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
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