I'm sorry guy's but I love this girl. She is spot on with what is wrong with the Politically correct society that we have to live in and endure.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2304083/Suzy-Lee-Weiss-Entitled-high-school-senior-sparks-firestorm-writing-biting-open-letter-Ivy-League-schools-rejected-her.html
Here she is on the Today Show.
http://todaynews.today.com/_news/2013/04/03/17584712-teens-lament-over-college-rejections-draws-detractors-defenders?lite
She just made getting scholarships and accepted to college much harder for herself with her bitter, impulsive little essay. Cute? Maybe. Appropriate? No.
Her essay makes her sound like a whiny, spoiled brat, although I don't think she is. Perfect colleges look for perfect students, simply put. She may have perfect grades, but that is only a part of being accepted into an Ivy League school. If she has nothing to show outside of schoolwork, they won't accept her.
Sometimes you have to do a few things that look good on paper. If she actually volunteered as much as she claims, she should have included that.
I think there's more to her story. If she was really as perfect as she claims to be, she would have been accepted.
Harvard discriminated against me because of my grades!
I turned Harvard down because their football team sucked.
Quote from: ZYX on April 05, 2013, 02:47:00 PM
She just made getting scholarships and accepted to college much harder for herself with her bitter, impulsive little essay. Cute? Maybe. Appropriate? No.
Her essay makes her sound like a whiny, spoiled brat, although I don't think she is. Perfect colleges look for perfect students, simply put. She may have perfect grades, but that is only a part of being accepted into an Ivy League school. If she has nothing to show outside of schoolwork, they won't accept her.
Sometimes you have to do a few things that look good on paper. If she actually volunteered as much as she claims, she should have included that.
I think there's more to her story. If she was really as perfect as she claims to be, she would have been accepted.
Where do you/did you go to college?
Quote from: ZYX on April 05, 2013, 02:47:00 PM
I think there's more to her story. If she was really as perfect as she claims to be, she would have been accepted.
So she would have to be perfect, just like W. Bush and Obama.
Quote from: dbacks fan on April 07, 2013, 04:03:07 PM
So she would have to be perfect, just like W. Bush and Obama.
People forget the Shrub went to Harvard and Yale. Funny when people criticize his intelligence forget that he is most likely better educated than they.
Quote from: guido911 on April 07, 2013, 05:51:39 PM
People forget the Shrub went to Harvard and Yale. Funny when people criticize his intelligence forget that he is most likely better educated than they.
So between two silver-spooned educational opportunities, why did he never learn to pronounce "nuclear?"
Quote from: guido911 on April 07, 2013, 05:51:39 PM
People forget the Shrub went to Harvard and Yale. Funny when people criticize his intelligence forget that he is most likely better educated than they.
Bush went to Phillips Andover. His grandfather was a sitting US Senator. His father, grandfather and great grandfather all went to Yale and were Skull and Bones.
By the time he went to Harvard his father had also been in congress, had been the ambassador to the UN and was chair of the Republican Party.
His father and grandfather were very impressive men. Going to Yale and Harvard was not a personal accomplishment.
Quote from: swake on April 07, 2013, 08:44:42 PM
Going to Yale and Harvard was not a personal accomplishment.
Getting in may not have been. Staying in and graduating maybe more so.
I believe I remember seeing that he had a slightly better GPA than Kerry.
Quote from: patric on April 07, 2013, 07:54:39 PM
So between two silver-spooned educational opportunities, why did he never learn to pronounce "nuclear?"
Not that important. Kind of like grammar and spelling on this forum.
Quote from: RecycleMichael on April 05, 2013, 04:21:38 PM
I turned Harvard down because their football team sucked.
Spoken like a true Okie. You have to keep what's important first.
;D
Quote from: guido911 on April 07, 2013, 05:51:39 PM
People forget the Shrub went to Harvard and Yale. Funny when people criticize his intelligence forget that he is most likely better educated than they.
You really believe he had to "lift a finger??" Or was ABLE to "lift a finger"??
Possible answers;
No - ok, then, my faith in you is restored!
Yes - ok, then, I have some wonderful beachfront property in eastern Arizona that is ideal for someone in your position in life! At wonderful prices!!
Quote from: Hoss on April 07, 2013, 08:17:38 PM
Enough said.
Would not have been so hard for him if he hadn't been half drunk (or more) so much of the time....
Quote from: heironymouspasparagus on April 07, 2013, 11:58:02 PM
You really believe he had to "lift a finger??" Or was ABLE to "lift a finger"??
Possible answers;
No - ok, then, my faith in you is restored!
Yes - ok, then, I have some wonderful beachfront property in eastern Arizona that is ideal for someone in your position in life! At wonderful prices!!
Okay. Where did you go to college, or otherwise get the cred to attack someone else's education accomplishments? Same goes for our resident forum cop. Oh, help me remember, who won that election subsequent to that debate hoss? I cannot remember.
I, for one, have some academic bona fides and didn't get into those schools--not that I put forth any effort. But I am not going to screech from the bleachers and criticize those that did, which does make me different than the person in the OP story.
Quote from: heironymouspasparagus on April 08, 2013, 12:08:33 AM
Would not have been so hard for him if he hadn't been half drunk (or more) so much of the time....
I guess he always avoided drinking altogether and been on smack--like our current pres. Is that better?
Quote from: heironymouspasparagus on April 08, 2013, 12:08:33 AM
Would not have been so hard for him if he hadn't been half drunk (or more) so much of the time....
Excuses, excuses... :D
Quote from: guido911 on April 07, 2013, 05:51:39 PM
People forget the Shrub went to Harvard and Yale. Funny when people criticize his intelligence forget that he is most likely better educated than they.
Legacy. Two types of people at Ivy League schools... the brilliant and the children of the well-connected.
And the legacies get a better education when they're able to rub shoulders with a brilliant and diverse student population.
Of course, that's conveniently left out of this whiny little brat's tirade against diversity... er uh... but she claims it's... cough cough... satire?
She lost me here...
Quote'What could I have done differently over the past years?' she wrote. 'For starters, had I known two years ago what I know now, I would have gladly worn a headdress to school. Show me to any closet, and I would've happily come out of it.'
and here...
Quote'My parents also left me with a dearth of hobbies that make admissions committees salivate. I've never sat down at a piano, never plucked a violin.'
If any of that "satirical" sentiment showed up in her application/interview, no wonder she lost out... she's not the first person with good grades to be rejected by Ivy League schools, and she certainly won't be the last...
Nevermind that there are many many schools she could get into in this region... but hey, this is "flyover" country, you know... ::)
QuoteShe said that before writing the letter she had been crying to her mother, who complained she had heard too much moaning and told her to speak to someone else.
She called her sister, a former assistant editor of the Op-Ed section at the Wall Street Journal, who said she should write about her feelings, leading to the article.
In turn, the article has led to offers of jobs and internship, Weiss said.
Lesson: If you don't get your way in life and your mama gets sick of hearing you piss and moan about it:
1. Call your well connected sister.
2. Write a letter that appeals to conservative white victimhood.
3. Soft-peddle it as "satire" when you get called out on it.
4. Watch the job offers and internships roll in.
5. Count your money.
Quote from: Red Arrow on April 07, 2013, 09:56:32 PM
Not that important. Kind of like grammar and spelling on this forum.
Hay! I relent that! ;D
Quote from: guido911 on April 08, 2013, 12:50:09 AM
I guess he always avoided drinking altogether and been on smack--like our current pres. Is that better?
Just say "no"...to all of the above...
Quote from: guido911 on April 08, 2013, 12:47:21 AM
Okay. Where did you go to college, or otherwise get the cred to attack someone else's education accomplishments? Same goes for our resident forum cop. Oh, help me remember, who won that election subsequent to that debate hoss? I cannot remember.
I, for one, have some academic bona fides and didn't get into those schools--not that I put forth any effort. But I am not going to screech from the bleachers and criticize those that did, which does make me different than the person in the OP story.
88 or "B" for highest grade ever - with whatever "Hi pass" means...
http://2004.georgewbush.org/bios/yale-transcript.asp
And Al Gore - not much better....
http://www.insidepolitics.org/heard/heard32300.html
And just LOOK at the intensity of those classes!! Amazing academic challenges abound!! Can you look at that list of classes and think any other thought than "9th grade high school"...?? And mediocre performance to accompany that..!