What's this op-ed missing?

Hobbies/interests: Shopping at Bed Bath & Beyond.

It's easy, really.

 

"The Indigo Girls: Still Rockin' After All These Years," by Suzy Lee Weiss

 

Hobbies/interests: Perusing independent bookstores on Castro Street.

 

Since Az posted this gem yesterday it was driving me crazy to think of the song that mentioned Swarthmore. Just popped on the radion- Creeque Alley - The Mommas and The
Poppas.

When Cass was a sophomore, planned to go to Swathmore
But she changed her mind one day.
Standin' on the turnpike, thumb out to hitchhike,
"Take me to New York right away."

Now the stupid song has been burned into my ear for the rest of the day.

 

Missed a good chance at a Simpsons reference with all this Swarthmore bashing.

 

And your SAT was what, B_S?

 

Ragu, what happened to your med school rejectee? Did he make it?

 

A girl that played softball for me is a freshman at Duke. She had a 35 on her ACT (36 is perfect) and was also accepted at UVA and Northwestern. She was rejected by Michigan.

 

She should write a snotty whiny op-ed for the WSJ blaming it all on "quotas."

Bring plenty of the butthurt.

 

Our valedictorian had a 1600 on the SAT (when that was the max score) and straight A's through high school, even taking math and science at a very good local college as a senior. He also was an Eagle Scout and had a handful of other extracurricular activities. I still remember this because it seemed so absurd: He got in to Harvard, Penn, Stanford, Duke, West Point and one or two other elite universities but was rejected by his top choice, Princeton.

Sometimes schools have very specific desires in prospective students. That's their right.

 

The thing about the Ivy League (or at least it used to be, before the Great Funk) is that most any degree from them was worth something in the job market. My sister worked at a hedge fund in New York and she'd see Yalies who majored in Geology or Romance Languages start out in high-paying analyst positions. And the publishing world is littered with folk whose four years in the Harvard English department actually paid off (as opposed to it being their time before law school.)

So, as entitled and (let's be frank) race-baiting as her essay was, she had something of a point. She ground out four years in high school. Now she's got to grind out four more in college and hope those pay off?