dcgirl713
dcgirl13
dcgirl713

OMG good point. I was thinking it was out of 1600, which is what it was back in my day. 11xx would have been fine. Out of 2400, it is not a good score. That seems like a local commuter school score, no?

This. College is more competitive than it has ever been; even large state schools aren’t an automatic in if you have decent grades and decent SATs. This is crazy talk for us Olds.

If it got your infant into such a state that she would need to go to the ER, I would expect it to make news.

People also forget there’s increasing grade inflation/emphasis on grades nowadays, in addition to more competition. So if mommy and daddy got in with B+’s, that doesn’t mean their kids will.

Very true. I applied (and was accepted) to Clemson in the mid 80's. I was an OK student, in the top 20% of my class. Today, the university has the most stringent admissions requirements in SC, and there’s no way I would have gotten in. Times change. It’s also almost 300% more expensive to attend Clemson now. That

It’s the kind of usage that makes any reasonably well educated person cringe inside. And I’ve never encountered a male who referred to women as “females” who wasn’t an idiot misogynist.

This is so true - I went to my state’s flagship school back in the day, and it was pretty much a given that if you had at least a so-so GPA and decent test scores, you would get in. It’s been more than a decade, and I’m honestly not sure I would get in if I graduated HS today. I think a lot of parents aren’t used to

Fantastic and thoughtful piece, Jia! I was also a cheerleader! Pics please ;P

This line is too crazy...

That’s impossible, she said above that she doesn’t see race, so how could she have that unconscious bias? Obviously those five students were all her classmates.

I hadn’t seen this comment from Fisher before:

My aunt and uncle are born again Christian, Fox news watching conservatives. They're personally very generous, especially with their time. They also tend to do all sorts of shady, scammy bullshit. In other words, they're very generous to the people they personally know (the "deserving") but outright con artists when

That's less than me, non-billionaire. Not that I'm trying to brag about my contributions or anything, but it's just disturbing. I guess that's one way to get rich - Scrooge-style.

omg a teacher had us watch a “making of” documentary about that episode and i am now forever terrified of being in a situation where i’m trapped but they can’t move me because my organs will fall out. also terrified of train gaps.

Honestly, they should just play that episode of Homicide: Life on the Streets with Vincent D’Onofrio in their stations, on a loop. That will keep commuters far away the edge of the platform.

I agree with this. I love Warren and all but seriously white people, stop claiming you are Native Americans because grandma told you a story. That’s a no.

I think there’s a lesson here for everyone. Unless you know...absolutely 100% for certain that you have Native American ancestors, don’t embarrass yourself by insisting you do. If if your grandma always insists that her great grandmother was a Cherokee princess, just nod and smile. She probably has no idea what she’s

Elizabeth Warren may not be 3% Native American, but Trump and his lackey Scott Brown are 100% Asshole, and that’s all that really matters.

I think at least some of it is elite schools vs. everywhere else. My students are mostly working and lower-middle class. I don’t have any of these problems.

I think there’s a lesson here for everyone. Unless you know...absolutely 100% for certain that you have Native American ancestors, don’t embarrass yourself by insisting you do. If if your grandma always insists that her great grandmother was a Cherokee princess, just nod and smile. She probably has no idea what she’s

Good Lord. Sure, she shouldn’t have claimed to be Native American. She shouldn’t have stuck with that story. It was a shitty thing to do, and it made me a bit uncomfortable that so many liberals defended her response at the time.