dagblog - Comments for "She Was Accepted to 113 Colleges: ‘I Could Go Anywhere, and Discover Who I Am’"

I never said there was "need

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 05 May 2018 15:22:41 +0000

I never said there was "need for any action", except to stop praising it, though if schools find it onerous and abusive, they may. Hopefully the student would be reasonable, and not need a further control to be "honest"

Charging for applications

rmrd0000 — Sat, 05 May 2018 15:12:10 +0000

In reply to Well good for you. I thought

Charging for applications disadvantages poor students. The other option would be for a line on the application asking how many college applications the student is making is one option. Hopefully the student would be honest. The other is a national registry. At this point, I don’t see a need for any action..

Well good for you. I thought

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 05 May 2018 13:40:00 +0000

In reply to I simply don’t view this

Well good for you. I thought it sucked, and gave my reasons. "Isolated" or not. (and as you noted, the less outrageous 20 schools example wasn't that long ago). If this catches on as a trend and 5000 students apply to 115 schools, will you admit that it's then a problem and a dumb waste of schools' time and budget? Or when it's 50,000? Or never, because theoretically some legislature could give everyone $20 billion, so it's not her fault. (In which case, why didn't she take a computer from each school - it's the legislature's fault.)

And if North Carolina and others stop offering free applications to colleges, will you admit that's a drag since it hurts poor kids more than wealthy or middle-class ones?

I simply don’t view this

rmrd0000 — Sat, 05 May 2018 13:04:04 +0000

In reply to You won't quit, will you.

I simply don’t view this phenomenon as worthy of outrage. It seems to be very isolated.

You won't quit, will you.

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 05 May 2018 07:14:03 +0000

In reply to Legislatures cutting budgets

You won't quit, will you.

Anyone with the academic

ocean-kat — Sat, 05 May 2018 01:18:27 +0000

In reply to She Was Accepted to 113 Colleges: ‘I Could Go Anywhere, and Discover Who I Am’

Anyone with the academic credentials to get accepted into an Ivy League college could get accepted into hundreds of colleges with lesser admission standards. The number is theoretically limited by the number of colleges in America but effectively limited by the number of hours a person has to spend filling out applications. It boils down to how many hours a person needs to sleep and eat.

When asked what she would do next Jasmine said, "For a few months I did nothing but eat, sleep, and send out college applications. I got really good at all three. The experience was good training for a hot dog eating contest. I plan to enter since I think I can break that record too."

Legislatures cutting budgets

rmrd0000 — Fri, 04 May 2018 22:56:42 +0000

In reply to Ever worked for a cash

Legislatures cutting budgets are likely more responsible for cash strapped colleges.

Well, I'm snagged. "Kids,

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 04 May 2018 20:10:29 +0000

In reply to I'm in the process of writing

Well, I'm snagged. "Kids, gather round - Uncle Peracles has a summer internship lined up for you. You'll hardly have to pay a thing."

adding more thoughts: I think

artappraiser — Fri, 04 May 2018 19:28:19 +0000

In reply to then I guess I should admit

adding more thoughts: I think there is a basic difference in the way I see Times pieces like this and a lot of the other main members on dagblog see them. I've come up against this enough times before to see where the clash is: with a lot of members here, everything is about political warfare and political messaging. and they are on the one team and have to censor anything that might help the other team. I.E., is this fuel for some political grist mill somewhere and the Times should stick with facts and not do that. I never looked at it that way, I am not on a political team, I don't like to color everything with politics. Over the decades, I go to the NYTimes for stories telling me about trends in the culture and I think that is this kind of story, where they take a one of or two examples and try to imply that it's becoming common. More's the pity that everyone sees that as fuel for somebody's political argument and they shouldn't be trying to report on trends because these would be outliers that fuel somebody or another's political argument. It is what it is, like trying to predict the future, granted, but I don't see anything wrong with that.

then I guess I should admit

artappraiser — Fri, 04 May 2018 19:15:56 +0000

In reply to I thought the newsworthy part

then I guess I should admit that it also made me think of that black college culcha loud and proud seeming to be a very hot thing of late