Posted on 01/16/2024 4:55:49 AM PST by FarCenter
The jig should have been up when the Varsity Blues scandal broke. Oh was it delicious. Hollywood actresses, hedge fund managers, winery owners, real estate developers and other assorted muckety-mucks sneaking their low-watt spawn into elite colleges. The fraud was so absurd you couldn’t make it up.
Rich people Photoshopping their kids playing sports, paying for medical “stupid” certifications to get “special” proctoring, hiring a Harvard grad SAT ringer able to deliver any score you want. Stanford, Yale, Cornell, Georgetown and we are not going to make USC jokes because the school has gotten a lot better in recent years.
And that Chinese girl who paid US$6.5 million to get into Stanford. Did you see her hour-long “I got into Stanford” video on YouTube? Oh the burns in the comments. If you could only read Chinese. Epic!
Of course, the joke is really on us. Because four years later, elite American universities – with additional malfeasance in the interim – continue to command the same prestige, elicit the same anxiety and demand the same obeisance.
The college counseling business is as hot as ever. Some are reportedly charging over a million dollars for white-glove service starting in the 7th grade, with a perfect record of admissions into HYPSM (if you have to ask, you can’t afford it).
And Asian Americans. Did you really think you scored a win when the Supreme Court scrapped affirmative action last year? The universities saw it coming a mile away and became test-optional well before the gavel came down. Underrepresented applicants are polishing their essays on how they’ve thrived in unsafe spaces while you are stuck with the surname Zhang.
So what can you do? You’ve already maxed out the SATs, signed up for every AP class, play the oboe, do bogus charity work and took up a ridiculous sport like fencing. At this point, it’s just one giant crap shoot.
Will the admissions officer like your essay on teaching inner-city kids at math camp (but they really taught you)? Does Yale need another oboist? Will your history teacher write a flashy enough recommendation?
And even if you do get into HYPSM (or its sorry near peers), you will be surrounded by a sea of people who maxed out on the SATs, took every AP class, play an instrument, did bogus charity work and took up a ridiculous sport like water polo. If it is true that you learn the most from your peers, then HYPSM will likely prove less educational than high school.
If you are lucky and go to a regular high school, at least you are exposed to regular people with regular aspirations and regular opinions – deplorable as they may be. In HYPSM, you will join the tiresome Westoid elite with their anxious entitlement and risible pretensions. It’s a nauseating mélange of sanctimony, condescension, virtue signaling, victim larping and look-at-me posturing.
(Long interesting read at the link.)
https://asiatimes.com/2024/01/open-letter-to-chinese-american-high-school-students/
In 2004, Tsinghua was ranked 62 in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. In 2024, Tsinghua ranked 12th in the world and 1st in Asia (with arch-nemesis Peking University at 14th). Both ranked higher than the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth and Brown.
Seven of the top 10 research universities in the Nature Index are now in China – University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), Nanjing University, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Zhejiang University and Fudan University.
But the American University system has Claudine Gay as the face of academia. Our “science” has evolved so much too, now the brilliant med school students cannot identify a man from a woman and the PolySci students are convinced “Our Democracy” is not communism.
More reason to despise everything and everyone dimocRAT!!!
And when TSHTF, those of us in flyover country with skills in trades and manual labor including how to feed ourselves and preserve food.
Survival is going to be difficult for those who have no life skills.
“Survival is going to be difficult for those who have no life skills”
You are referring to those students with “Studies” or Journalism degrees. Basically any degree that is required to work at the State Department.
When the collapse comes, hopefully soon, the great death will clean out the worthless masses in the Deep State and beyond.
HYPSM = Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT.
HYPSM stands for Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and MIT.
I saw a Karen in WallyWorld yesterday wearing a MIT sweatshirt. I was NOT impressed.
Who are you? Winnie the Pooh?
HA! Jokes on THEM! After they fully take us over, we will be SO stupid and incompetent to lead, they will be pulling their hair out and curling their faces in conniptions, giving up and just feeding us while we watch TV!
We win, losers!
For many years now, most foreign students come here for a Green Card.
They graduate. They get a student visa OPT job. 12-36 months later, they transfer to a H1B work visa, and an employer who sponsors them for a Green Card.
Once they get a Green Card, the entire family can move to the USA. The grandparents automatically qualify for SSI and Medicaid.
Yes an it will be off limits to Westerners by the on sorry fact that westerners do not speak read Mandarin.
——The college counseling business is as hot as ever——
That would be the American college counseling business.
In China, the “education” businesses all over were outlawed and closed by the CCP. Mothers could no longer fret about her child being admitted to the number one kindergarten. It was closed, no one was going to be admitted. There was no number one kindergarten. In a China socialist society, there is equality, educational equality.
The irony of it all is that after all the motherly fretting and years of intense study and educational preparation, the kid after being one of ten thousand applicants rejected for a job, chucks it all, rejects the whole notion and Lies Flat.
Unless you are the child of a high-up Commie official.
The American University System has NIL and sports wins.
“The American University System has NIL and sports wins.”
What’s amusing is the only place one finds true meritocracy in American universities is in the big revenue sports - and true “diversity” (in contrast to the word being used as a euphemism) isn’t a concern in the least: no Power 5 coach is going to lose any sleep if an Asian or a Hispanic never gets a scholarship on his team.
That Chink in the picture has her fingers the wrong way that’s not victory it like a fuck off salute. Churchill used it once and so did Bush 41. It’s in the Churchill movie.
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