Posted on 11/30/2018 4:47:21 AM PST by reaganaut1
BREAUX BRIDGE, La. Bryson Sassaus application would inspire any college admissions officer.
A founder of T.M. Landry College Preparatory School described him as a bright, energetic, compassionate and genuinely well-rounded student whose alcoholic father had beaten him and his mother and had denied them money for food and shelter. His transcript speaks for itself, the founder, Tracey Landry, wrote, but Mr. Sassau should also be lauded for founding a community service program, the Dry House, to help the children of abusive and alcoholic parents. He took four years of honors English, the application said, was a baseball M.V.P. and earned high honors in the Mathematics Olympiad.
The narrative earned Mr. Sassau acceptance to St. Johns University in New York. There was one problem: None of it was true.
I was just a small piece in a whole fathom of lies, Mr. Sassau said.
T.M. Landry has become a viral Cinderella story, a small school run by Michael Landry, a teacher and former salesman, and his wife, Ms. Landry, a nurse, whose predominantly black, working-class students have escaped the rural South for the nations most elite colleges. A video of a 16-year-old student opening his Harvard acceptance letter last year has been viewed more than eight million times. Other Landry students went on to Yale, Brown, Princeton, Stanford, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell and Wesleyan.
Landry success stories have been splashed in the past two years on the Today show, Ellen and the CBS Morning News. Education professionals extol T.M. Landry and its 100 or so kindergarten-through-12th-grade students as an example for other Louisiana schools. Wealthy supporters have pushed the Landrys, who have little educational training, to expand to other cities. Small donors, heartened by the web videos, send in a steady stream of cash.
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I am curious as to the bottom line. Did all these students flunk out after their freshman year?
Oh, and in true FR tradition, I did not read the article.
Of course, I gather that at least some elite colleges are now downplaying SAT's because they get in the way of virtue signaling in the admissions office.
Why is college tuition so high? Ans: It’s high only for Whitey and Chinese. They’re the ones paying the tuition for the non-achievers, who get in free.
Is it too much to ask to be evaluated on your own merits?
Thanks for that link!
Wouldn’t that be “...ist”? Racist, sexist, tranny-ist and so forth.
100 percent acceptance rate? That did not raise any red flags? Someone did not want to know the truth. A lot of someones.
Most schools nowadays consider SAT scores on a race-based curve. A minority (except asian) student’s SAT score will be treated the same as a non-minority who scores 100 or 200 points higher.
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