You're Losing Me Right About Here...
From the June 16th Chronicle of Higher Education:
"Criteria for admission [to Emory] are diverse. Doing well in high school is still a terrific idea, and, bless her heart, Frances has. But ever since seventh grade her teachers and counselors have nudged her to perform community service, play music and competitive sports, act, publish poems, edit magazines, do internships in hospitals, and in a dozen other ways be extracurricular to give her an edge in college applications."
You might infer from the above passage that its author is mighty proud of his daughter's accomplishments while she was in high school. And to be honest, who can blame him?
But immediately after....
"Being a legacy or (as in her case) the child of a professor certainly helps."
Well, duuuuuuuh- of course she's going to get in! My father could have written the same words 33 years ago about me (though, to be fair, he might have wanted to rewrite the first paragraph slightly to emphasize that even though I was nudged I never actually participated in any of these activties)!
What makes the quote so irritating are these words immediately preceding:
"Paying your way through Emory or its sisters in the American college big leagues is almost certain to cost more than $150,000. It's also a system in which half or more of her generation of 18-year-olds enroll in some kind of postsecondary institution; she'll be one of literally millions of freshmen this fall."
Yeah, unless your daughter happens to be going to the same school where you work. It seems awfully ingenuous to not mention that she will enjoy a healthy tuition waiver during her time at Emory...
"Criteria for admission [to Emory] are diverse. Doing well in high school is still a terrific idea, and, bless her heart, Frances has. But ever since seventh grade her teachers and counselors have nudged her to perform community service, play music and competitive sports, act, publish poems, edit magazines, do internships in hospitals, and in a dozen other ways be extracurricular to give her an edge in college applications."
You might infer from the above passage that its author is mighty proud of his daughter's accomplishments while she was in high school. And to be honest, who can blame him?
But immediately after....
"Being a legacy or (as in her case) the child of a professor certainly helps."
Well, duuuuuuuh- of course she's going to get in! My father could have written the same words 33 years ago about me (though, to be fair, he might have wanted to rewrite the first paragraph slightly to emphasize that even though I was nudged I never actually participated in any of these activties)!
What makes the quote so irritating are these words immediately preceding:
"Paying your way through Emory or its sisters in the American college big leagues is almost certain to cost more than $150,000. It's also a system in which half or more of her generation of 18-year-olds enroll in some kind of postsecondary institution; she'll be one of literally millions of freshmen this fall."
Yeah, unless your daughter happens to be going to the same school where you work. It seems awfully ingenuous to not mention that she will enjoy a healthy tuition waiver during her time at Emory...
posted by Mr. White at 9:40 PM
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