Posted on 05/31/2025 10:53:32 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
It’s high school graduation season. An exciting time.
All over the United States, our best students and hardest workers are looking forward to the next step in their life journey:
Some are making the tough choice between a few good four-year colleges. Some are going to save some money the first couple of years, by going to the local community college. Some are entering the military. Some are going to vocational school. Some are going straight into full time jobs and starting their careers.
This happens everywhere, at every income level. Our FAFSA forms may look different, but for the most part, we all balance the same choices, from the lower middle class to the wealthy: what’s affordable, what’s close, what feels like the best fit for our son or daughter?
And in a certain number of homes, this was preceded, a month or two earlier, by a moment of true sadness: despite a perfect SAT score, a perfect GPA, several AP classes and a well-rounded set of extracurriculars – their top choice -- Harvard University, perhaps? -– sent a rejection letter.
The student was confident, and the parents had let themselves be confident as well; with such an application packet, the odds were good that Harvard would say yes -– but you never know. And sure enough, their dream school said 'no.'
There are other good schools, we tell our kids; things will turn out O.K.
The parents console their child: “You did great; it’s just the breaks, that’s all. You’ll be happy at your second choice school.” Or “You did great; I guess they liked somebody else’s essay more, or they liked somebody else’s extracurriculars more, or something.” Or “if you got in, then some other kid wouldn’t have, and maybe that kid couldn’t handle it as well...”
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“perfect SAT score, a perfect GPA, several AP classes”
Typically anyone getting into real majors at the name schools have 8-11 AP courses and their GPA’s are in excess of “perfect” by a few tenths of a point...and even then the competition is severe.
That’s for the actual hard majors. For the soft stuff...just gotta be the right color / ethnicity and then have something above a 3.5...
And yet we’ve read of Harvard freshmen taking remedial algebra.
DEI rules. Pity.
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