Posted on 03/24/2022 1:18:22 AM PDT by Jonty30
"Am hearing that Brentwood, prestigious private school in LA, is in chaos after almost zero white seniors got into to UC schools. When friends went there in happier times, UC acceptance was like 80%. This year, bipoc kids only."
"Parents who spent $60K/yr+ for 6 years little upset"
But they're not worthless. They are a ticket to enter government, the law, and the world of Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc.
The end result is a person ascending to the Supreme Court and running our lives who does not know what a woman is because she's not a biologist.
Parents who are frantic to put their kids on this ladder of status and power know exactly what they are doing.
I was asked to advise parents of a cousin on whether student had math ability for engineering. Student was supposedly in first year of civil engineering, but taking mostly humanities classes, studying 1/2 hour a day, and getting all Cs, Ds, and Fs. He said he wanted to go into civil engineering because he liked building things.
After talking with me, he decided to study heating and air conditioning at community college with the idea of doing that for a couple of years and then starting or buying a business doing it. That is what he really wanted to do, but snobby parents were pushing him to college and marketable degree, which is probably partly why he was failing everything. I gave him confirmation that it was a practical thing to do, with a decent paying job initially and a good career with a business and potential to go further with his business.
The UCs are extremely competitive. Berkeley is about the level of a top 30 private university. They seem to be destroying that, but there are still other competitive colleges and graduate and professional schools.
Oh, by the way, how many whites live in Brentwood, as opposed to “fellow white people”.
Good private schools > schools in fancy neighborhoods > ordinary public schools > schools in poorer areas or rural schools > schools in the hood. If you just take on GPA, you will get students from the hood who cannot read or write, etc., which is apparently what they are now doing.
There is a similar issue with med schools, which take mostly on GPA and MCAT score, so it is hard to get into them from Caltech, etc. However, undergraduate admissions did not use to be like that.
If the census figs are accurate...
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/brentwoodcitycalifornia
It’s 60.6% white.
ha!! the ones around here will chisel you down to bare minimum!! ive been in construction my whole life, and I have found the exact opposite of what say to be true.
If the parents want to get back at UC universities, enroll your kids at Hillsdale.
I’m glad.
For far too long wealthy and upper middle class (Leftist) White couples have been only too happy to screw over poor and middle class White kids in the name of their ideology - so long as it didn’t affect their kids. They were happy with openly racist quotas. They were happy with emphasizing extracurricular activities (everybody knows why they started pushing this). They were happy to eliminate any and all objective standards such as standardized tests for admission to universities.....same reason as the nebulous extra curricular activities.
Well now that there were hardly any poor and middle class White kids to take seats away from the monster they created has finally turned and devoured their kids.
That was the only thing that was ever going to force change. I hope it continues. You can say its cruel of me to want to see these kids get screwed over but this has been happening to others for a long time and would continue to happen forever so long as these sacred cows were not touched. The way you create conservatives is to watch liberals get mugged. They’ve just been mugged.
Good.
It already has happened. Just look at the leadership of the Democrat Party!
Bkmk
UC grads staff Kalifornia’s massive bureaucracy. Skin color, gender, and Marxism are the primary requirements. Competence and skill not considered.
The old white guy party?
The tokens are only there for show.
The leadership is still mostly white.
Top law firms and hospitals only pick doctors and lawyers from the Ivy League. For all other careers it mostly doesn’t matter.
I parallel your story. After serving in the Corps about 25 years ago I joined the Telcom industry, too.
Every company I’ve worked for since has spent thousands and thousands of dollars training me on PBX’s VOIP systems, LAN/WAN design, fiber transport, and wireless networking. When I add it all up in my head it’s Master level learning.
2 months ago I landed what I intend to be my last job supporting about 40 sales people for a huge electrical equipment distributor. I make a really nice 6 figure salary, full benefits including a pension and profit sharing, a company car, and no sales quota.
They find the opportunities, I match that opportunity to the appropriate supplier, and coordinate all the design and engineering assets. I’m still learning new stuff every day and I’m loving it. I’m not tied to an office and still get to see customers. I work from home 90% of the time.
People who think they only route to success is college haven’t done their homework.
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Not likely. There is usually grade inflation at such schools. When you are paying big money, everyone gets a trophy.
This. And what happened at Yale Law school the other day is another indication that an “elite” school has a real problem. Woke students would not even tolerate listening to the views of a conservative on the topic of FREE SPEECH. They don’t even understand the basics of the First Amendment.
The question should have been phrased, "Since you are a mother, would you tell us what a woman is?
False. Completely and totally.
“If you’re White, ... you aren’t allowed to complain.”
That’s kind of what the black T-Mobile to told me a few days ago when I told her we’ll be going to another provider. She asked why and I said because T-Mobile is racist and we are offended by their incredibly racist TV ad.
“But T-Mobile SUPPORTS minorities.” I said, “Yeah; they ONLY support minorities. When they discriminate against whites, that’s racist.” She never did get it.
We’ve allowed this to happen, and our GOP pols have been some of the worst offenders. They’re so afraid to be tagged as racist that they don’t stand up for equality, and they’re the ones who actually have power to make changes.
Yes, and totally incompetent.
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