Think my prize could be finally escaping the Gawker Greydom? *ovaries crossed*

Oh hey, check out the upper-right — Kenny Rogers is now in the capitol press pool. Glad to see he's working.

Are you guys as weirdly aroused by Kirk Watson's brain as I am? Is it even better when you're that close to it? Just wondering.

Problem is that most legislatures use Mason's Manual. But these leaders don't seem like the brightest bulbs, soooooo...

She was in the final third of her filibuster. You can't abort anything after the 2/3 mark. LET HER SPEAK.

Fascinating. Thanks for sharing.

My brother's "sugar baby" did it because she was from a broken home, was looking for a replacement father figure, and decided that living off someone and continuing to smoke pot all day at home was a better option than, you know, getting a job and being productive and shit. This article focused on college women to…

Wait, how come I only got Facebook ads telling me to sell my eggs to pay for college? My ovaries were in demand, but not my cuddles? Dammit.

My middle-aged brother's barely-out-of-high-school girlfriend found him through a sugar daddy/baby dating website. Little did she know that a) he isn't rich and b) he really just wanted someone young enough to be fertile and give him more children. (Rebound after a divorce.) He kept up the "rich" gag, blowing…

Oh, dear.

If it's not even middle 50% at SUNY-Binghamton, it's not getting you into UT.

Yes, but not everyone attends one of those top-tiers, which is why legacy status is often a bigger deal at the bottom half of the top 100. And actually, even among the prestige schools, the self-selecting ones tend to have lousy graduation rates. Women's colleges are notoriously bad; Smith, for example, loses a full…

Yes. They also openly disclose this information to the College Board (it's always listed as "Alumni Relation"), so if you're ever wondering whether a college factors in legacy status, you can check their profile there.

One of the arguments in favor of heavy legacy admits is the attrition rate. Legacies have a far higher retention rate than non-legacy applicants at most institutions, partly due to familial pressure ("dammit, young lady, you're going to maintain the family tradition whether you want to or not!") and partly due to the…

For competitive admission, yes, it's low. 3.75/4.0 is generally considered the minimum target for successful applicants to top-tier colleges. The year I was accepted to my alma mater, the average was a 3.81 for first-years and 3.86 for transfers. To use everyone's favorite example, nearly 90% of Harvard admits from…

The sad thing? I applied to that college and its peers because I knew they were the only ones where I'd get such great aid thanks to their massive endowments. The whole "you never pay sticker price" principle. My state university gave me literally $0 in grant money and was going to saddle me with loans, while all…

Oh man, be glad you didn't go to my college, then. In addition to bragging about your dad's fancy job being a huge thing, it was also basically public knowledge who was on financial aid. My personal favorite was that all first-year students on work-study had to work in the dining halls, so it was literally the poors…

Eh, not sure I agree with that. I worked in New England top-tier college admissions for a while and went to one of those LACs myself, and there has been a spike in need-conscious admissions since 2008. Quite a few colleges that were in the process of transitioning to need-blind halted their plans; Wesleyan, Tufts,…

All things are possible through Christ, except for achieving the requisite minimum GPA and test scores.

This is how I'm coming down on it. I think it's way better than the average apology, but there's still enough evidence in his words to make me think he's still not fully getting it. Passing grade, not worth sainthood.