Little secret . . . colleges don’t reach out unless you’ve proven your academic ability in some way. Our oldest never received anything from any colleges because she was homeschooled and took the GED. She never took the ACT nor SAT. She never made it on the radar screen of colleges. She is a college student because we pursued a local institution due to its location and academic offerings. Daughter #2 took the PSAT as a sophomore, and she receives mail and email on a daily basis from the best schools in the country. Her scores didn’t really matter this year. When she takes the test again as a junior, then it will mean something. Anywho, she had never received anything from a college prior to this year.
And the reason I am telling my anecdotal story follows. Our fourth child, a son, is in the seventh grade. When he was in the fifth grade, we moved to a new town, registered him for school, and his registration was botched. I believe I must have left the ‘racial preference’ section blank. The computer or person entering the data into the computer must have filled in ‘African American’ which has led to all sorts of interesting things. Son began receiving recruitment letters from our local university as a fifth grader. None of our other children receive these things. The status has been changed to Caucasian, but the letters to our African American child keep coming. It’s enlightening.
poor widdo shelley, they made an overture an she didn’t feew good aboud id waaaaaa
“The institution made no effort to reach out to me — a bright and promising student in their midst —”
Dear Mrs. Obama,
This is exactly what the Bill Ayers/George Soros/Ford Foundation/Teacher’s Unions/Saul Alinsky-types WANT and DEMAND in public schools, moving the class to the speed of the lowest common denominator AND pushing a collective sense of self-worth (narcissim) with no hard science, math or liberal arts learning, other than anecdotal pieces of learning.
Michelle, this is the education system you want and spend billions to implement; keeping the bright kids back while mashing the bell curve to produce more Obamabot drones who want a system that will make them poor and not secure.
It worked.
If AA wasn’t there, you would still be a well-paid bureaucrat teaching more Marxism and faux Community Organizing, which is thinly-masked Communism.
Just be thankful the adoring media cameras always miss your backside, Kim Kardashian could be considered a “peer.” Just saying, a real media would cut through your garbage, but we are stuck with Fox and talk radio.
Only 3 years and change to go...
Sincerely,
wac3rd
Copernicus is calling, Michelle. You’re not the center of the universe.
Was the university supposed to canvass the neighborhood for potential students? Somehow I doubt it has to look that hard for applicants. Why does she think she rated that sort of attention?
If only a real journalist had followed up her statement with a few pertinent questions. Sigh
What an ego!
Did she truly expect them to come begging at her door? Did she think she was supposed to be SUMMONED by a college? Why did she end up attending the one she chose? Did THAT school issue her a personal invitation?
That One and Michelle are such narcissists!
I did well in high school, Honors and all that, but I never got a call from the college that was in my hometown. I ended up going there, cause my Mama worked there, and I went for free. Of course, this was 1971, and the tuition was $279 a quarter. ;o)