[OT] WSJ: “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior”

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[quote=AN]I assume this is all tongue in cheek but my perspective is, why try to cheat to get into a UC or better school. If your kids can’t even hang w/ your peers at ANY HS in SD, then most likely, your kids be creamed when they get into those prestigious schools. My guess is 90-95% of their peers will get into those school based on their own merits, so, sooner or later, they’ll have to compete at a level they can’t compete at and drop out, or get a 2.0 average.[/quote]

Yeah. I’m sure no one has ever cheated in colleges and universities.

[UCGal]

[quote=equalizer]
Don’t forget to move kid in last year of HS to lowest performing school in county, sure way to get into any college.[/quote]

A nephew had this happen to him, unintentionally. His dad was transferred from the Philly Metro area to Kentucky when he was in HS. When he applied to Wharton, he was one of very few applicants applying from his state. Penn does some geographical balancing on applications, looking for students from all states – and this worked in his favor.

(Don’t get me wrong – he’s super smart, great grades… he might/probably would have gotten in applying from his previous high school – but the competition is much harder if all the local kids want to go to the top Ivy school in town. It was a slam dunk with his test scores/grades when he applied from Kentucky.)

[UCGal]

[quote=equalizer]
Don’t forget to move kid in last year of HS to lowest performing school in county, sure way to get into any college.[/quote]

A nephew had this happen to him, unintentionally. His dad was transferred from the Philly Metro area to Kentucky when he was in HS. When he applied to Wharton, he was one of very few applicants applying from his state. Penn does some geographical balancing on applications, looking for students from all states – and this worked in his favor.

(Don’t get me wrong – he’s super smart, great grades… he might/probably would have gotten in applying from his previous high school – but the competition is much harder if all the local kids want to go to the top Ivy school in town. It was a slam dunk with his test scores/grades when he applied from Kentucky.)

[UCGal]

[quote=equalizer]
Don’t forget to move kid in last year of HS to lowest performing school in county, sure way to get into any college.[/quote]

A nephew had this happen to him, unintentionally. His dad was transferred from the Philly Metro area to Kentucky when he was in HS. When he applied to Wharton, he was one of very few applicants applying from his state. Penn does some geographical balancing on applications, looking for students from all states – and this worked in his favor.

(Don’t get me wrong – he’s super smart, great grades… he might/probably would have gotten in applying from his previous high school – but the competition is much harder if all the local kids want to go to the top Ivy school in town. It was a slam dunk with his test scores/grades when he applied from Kentucky.)

[UCGal]

[quote=equalizer]
Don’t forget to move kid in last year of HS to lowest performing school in county, sure way to get into any college.[/quote]

A nephew had this happen to him, unintentionally. His dad was transferred from the Philly Metro area to Kentucky when he was in HS. When he applied to Wharton, he was one of very few applicants applying from his state. Penn does some geographical balancing on applications, looking for students from all states – and this worked in his favor.

(Don’t get me wrong – he’s super smart, great grades… he might/probably would have gotten in applying from his previous high school – but the competition is much harder if all the local kids want to go to the top Ivy school in town. It was a slam dunk with his test scores/grades when he applied from Kentucky.)

[UCGal]

[quote=equalizer]
Don’t forget to move kid in last year of HS to lowest performing school in county, sure way to get into any college.[/quote]

A nephew had this happen to him, unintentionally. His dad was transferred from the Philly Metro area to Kentucky when he was in HS. When he applied to Wharton, he was one of very few applicants applying from his state. Penn does some geographical balancing on applications, looking for students from all states – and this worked in his favor.

(Don’t get me wrong – he’s super smart, great grades… he might/probably would have gotten in applying from his previous high school – but the competition is much harder if all the local kids want to go to the top Ivy school in town. It was a slam dunk with his test scores/grades when he applied from Kentucky.)

[sdrealtor]

A little OT but when I was in college there was a guy from Kentucky who lived on my floor freshman year. He was the Valedictorian in his class of about 100 students. He was a great guy and we all loved him. He failed out in 3 months.

[sdrealtor]

A little OT but when I was in college there was a guy from Kentucky who lived on my floor freshman year. He was the Valedictorian in his class of about 100 students. He was a great guy and we all loved him. He failed out in 3 months.

[sdrealtor]

A little OT but when I was in college there was a guy from Kentucky who lived on my floor freshman year. He was the Valedictorian in his class of about 100 students. He was a great guy and we all loved him. He failed out in 3 months.

[sdrealtor]

A little OT but when I was in college there was a guy from Kentucky who lived on my floor freshman year. He was the Valedictorian in his class of about 100 students. He was a great guy and we all loved him. He failed out in 3 months.

[sdrealtor]

A little OT but when I was in college there was a guy from Kentucky who lived on my floor freshman year. He was the Valedictorian in his class of about 100 students. He was a great guy and we all loved him. He failed out in 3 months.

[Coronita]

[quote=jpinpb][quote=AN]I assume this is all tongue in cheek but my perspective is, why try to cheat to get into a UC or better school. If your kids can’t even hang w/ your peers at ANY HS in SD, then most likely, your kids be creamed when they get into those prestigious schools. My guess is 90-95% of their peers will get into those school based on their own merits, so, sooner or later, they’ll have to compete at a level they can’t compete at and drop out, or get a 2.0 average.[/quote]

Yeah. I’m sure no one has ever cheated in colleges and universities.[/quote]

Actually, AN. I don’t think this is cheating in the sense that the rules that were established weren’t exactly creating a level playing field to begin with. Plus, I’m not suggesting one mismark the ethnicity…But if some admissions person wants to classify a last name as such, nothing I can do about that, can I? Cheating no, exploiting a dumb rule, yes…. Just making a mockery of the system is what I’m getting at. Why should my kid have to work twice as hard to compete with twice as many people to get into the same programs over a stupid last name?

[Coronita]

[quote=jpinpb][quote=AN]I assume this is all tongue in cheek but my perspective is, why try to cheat to get into a UC or better school. If your kids can’t even hang w/ your peers at ANY HS in SD, then most likely, your kids be creamed when they get into those prestigious schools. My guess is 90-95% of their peers will get into those school based on their own merits, so, sooner or later, they’ll have to compete at a level they can’t compete at and drop out, or get a 2.0 average.[/quote]

Yeah. I’m sure no one has ever cheated in colleges and universities.[/quote]

Actually, AN. I don’t think this is cheating in the sense that the rules that were established weren’t exactly creating a level playing field to begin with. Plus, I’m not suggesting one mismark the ethnicity…But if some admissions person wants to classify a last name as such, nothing I can do about that, can I? Cheating no, exploiting a dumb rule, yes…. Just making a mockery of the system is what I’m getting at. Why should my kid have to work twice as hard to compete with twice as many people to get into the same programs over a stupid last name?

[Coronita]

[quote=jpinpb][quote=AN]I assume this is all tongue in cheek but my perspective is, why try to cheat to get into a UC or better school. If your kids can’t even hang w/ your peers at ANY HS in SD, then most likely, your kids be creamed when they get into those prestigious schools. My guess is 90-95% of their peers will get into those school based on their own merits, so, sooner or later, they’ll have to compete at a level they can’t compete at and drop out, or get a 2.0 average.[/quote]

Yeah. I’m sure no one has ever cheated in colleges and universities.[/quote]

Actually, AN. I don’t think this is cheating in the sense that the rules that were established weren’t exactly creating a level playing field to begin with. Plus, I’m not suggesting one mismark the ethnicity…But if some admissions person wants to classify a last name as such, nothing I can do about that, can I? Cheating no, exploiting a dumb rule, yes…. Just making a mockery of the system is what I’m getting at. Why should my kid have to work twice as hard to compete with twice as many people to get into the same programs over a stupid last name?

[Coronita]

[quote=jpinpb][quote=AN]I assume this is all tongue in cheek but my perspective is, why try to cheat to get into a UC or better school. If your kids can’t even hang w/ your peers at ANY HS in SD, then most likely, your kids be creamed when they get into those prestigious schools. My guess is 90-95% of their peers will get into those school based on their own merits, so, sooner or later, they’ll have to compete at a level they can’t compete at and drop out, or get a 2.0 average.[/quote]

Yeah. I’m sure no one has ever cheated in colleges and universities.[/quote]

Actually, AN. I don’t think this is cheating in the sense that the rules that were established weren’t exactly creating a level playing field to begin with. Plus, I’m not suggesting one mismark the ethnicity…But if some admissions person wants to classify a last name as such, nothing I can do about that, can I? Cheating no, exploiting a dumb rule, yes…. Just making a mockery of the system is what I’m getting at. Why should my kid have to work twice as hard to compete with twice as many people to get into the same programs over a stupid last name?

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