Posted on 04/04/2013 9:17:40 AM PDT by cripplecreek
A Pennsylvania high schooler whose cheeky op-ed in the Wall Street Journal sparked a national conversation on college admissions might be a University of Michigan Wolverine next year.
Suzy Lee Weiss appeared on the Today Show Thursday morning and, when asked where she'd be going to college in the fall, said she hadn't decided but coughed "Go Blue," a favorite U-M cheer.
On March 29 the Journal published Weiss' opinion piece entitled 'To (All) the Colleges That Rejected Me.' Weiss had dreamed of going to Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, but the Pittsburgh high school senior was rejected despite a reported 4.5 GPA.
In her piece, Weiss laments what she considers the unrealistic expectations of college admissions offices.
"Colleges tell you, 'Just be yourself.' That is great advice, as long as yourself has nine extracurriculars, six leadership positions, three varsity sports, killer SAT scores and two moms. Then by all means, be yourself!" She wrote. "If you work at a local pizza shop and are the slowest person on the cross-country team, consider taking your business elsewhere."
A week after it was first published, the op-ed remains the most-read article on the Journal's website.
On the Today Show Thursday, Weiss said her op-ed was satire, using jokes to illustrate the seeming absurdity of the college application process.
"Everyone my age, whether they wanted to get into Penn State their whole lives or Harvard, is agreeing with me that it's just a rat race nowadays and it's such a business model as opposed to who's most qualified should get in," she said. "It's a crapshoot and I understand that."
While she was rejected from the Ivy League colleges she dreamt of during her youth, she did get into several Big 10 schools— including U-M, which was recently rated a top 'dream school' by the Princeton Review.
"I got into great schools in the Big Ten: University of Michigan, Indiana, Penn State and Wisconsin. All of which I am ecstatic about. I couldn't be more happy," she said.
And if Weiss' "Go Blue" cheer means anything, we may be seeing her in Ann Arbor this fall.
She’s another teenage girl who has surfaced recently who spat in the eyes of liberals. There is another girl who is an advocate of the 2nd Amendment and she spoke before legislators on how they would be wrong to try to put curbs on the right to keep and bear arms. Somewhere, somehow, conservatives are doing something right and some jewels are starting to emerge. They need our prayers and support.
You couldn’t be more right.
“‘I couldn’t be more happy’
In grammatical English, that would be “happier,” my dear. But no one teaches grammar these days.”
Uh.....NO! ‘more happy’ is correct. ;-)
Brave girl taking it right to the source of the Michigan affirmative action fight.
Actually, no.
Given equivalent SAT scores and GPA the male gets the acceptance letter. White females need higher scores than white males.
I’m not sure that is officially in your Funk and Wagnels.
Let’s just say she’s happier than a tornado in a trailer park.
Great op-ed!
I work for a college.... oh yes she is so correct. The pandering for everything non-white, non-hetero, is sickening....and my college actually says the Pledge of Allegiance at events...with “Under God”... and is still anti-white/anti-straight
If he does well in pre-med, and has any sort of extra curricular interest at all, he should be able to get into med school.
And what credentials did he have to actually graduate?
This is too rich for words. My child was accepted to U of Michigan but declined after reading the fine print in the acceptance forms. There was a requirement that the students agree to take part in ‘activism’. Upon talking to the school, it became clear that said ‘activism’ would be whatever the school decided at the time.
A classmate decided to attend, and let me say, that poor kid has been completely swept up in the activism mentality promoted there.
But hey, their football stadium is impressive ;-)
You mean, "You couldn't be rightier."
Another take on the origins of that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski-U-Mah_(slogan)
And as they say on the commercial it has to be true if it’s on the internet.
I agree with whoever is righterest.
U of M? Well, it's almost like going to college.
All rightie.
It all depends on what her course of study is.
If it were liberal arts Hillsdale college would be the place to go or even Spring Arbor.
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