Stanford

Here's my Stanford admissions anecdote:

I knew a Pigott who applied to Stanford a couple years ago. If you're unfamiliar, the Pigott's founded PACCAR, and have been sending kids to Stanford since the 1950's. There are buildings and scholarships in the Pigott name down there. The person who applied had a 3.8 GPA at Lakeside and 2200+ SAT's, the only problem being they were white. They didn't get in.

Glad someone in their place will get to be the first from their family to go to college and flunk out midway through their first year!

Liberals everyone.
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yep, well aware of who they are. and that story is not as uncommon as it once might have been. Lots of stories like that floating around now - members of the Coors family not getting into Duke, members of the Firestone family being rejected at Princeton, etc. Now that those schools have endowements in the billions, I guess they're not the whores they used to be for $$, though I'm sure it still talks on the margin.

However, I have to say that a Piggot with a Lakeside 3.8 and 2200+ is a little less believable. I'm guessing that the person who relayed this story to you has bumped up baby Piggott's numbers just a bit. Lakeside sends kids to Stanford in droves - it's part of what makes Lakeside such a powerful prep school.
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Said Pigott ended up going to Northwestern. Didn't hear it through the grapevine but straight from the source. In that Lakeside class only 2 ended up going to Stanford and about 8-10 got in, but chose Ivies. Overall it was a pretty poor showing and had Lakeside administrators worried. Now they're taking 60% non-whites whereas before it was only 45%.

Again, liberals everyone.
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wow. though have to say that 8 to 10 admits, given Lakeside's relatively small class size, is not a bad realization rate for one of the top, if not THE top, target for kids at that school. Mercer Island had a bunch admitted too.

one thing I hear that has not changed is the power of legacy - my bud's kid graduated from there this year and is at Berkeley - applied to, and rejected at, Furd. Said all but 2 kids at MI who got in, which was about 5 or 6 total, were legacy.

so I guess not everything has changed. then again, what are the chances of two Stanford people screwing and winding up with an average kid academically?

btw, Northwestern is a soft landing, though it's kind of an extreme reaction weather-wise. I think I'd have looked elsewhere, though NW is a damn good school.
 
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Robert Kennedy Jr's daughter got into Stanford. I'm pretty sure she's a genius and notoriety had nothing to do with it.
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you don't know what you don't know.

no idea, I just know there is a lot of writing and talk out there that the fame, plugged in, money admission door has been effectively closed. you gotta remember, though, that kids in that category usually have top-flight prep educations and resources are there to make them the best they can be ... couple that with the fact that these families do still churn out bright people - not just the dumbshits we read about - and it's not that surprising that several still get there.

Chelsea Clinton was no dummy - her parents, love 'em or hate 'em, are fucking brilliant human beings.
 
Robert Kennedy Jr's daughter got into Stanford. I'm pretty sure she's a genius and notoriety had nothing to do with it.
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you don't know what you don't know.

no idea, I just know there is a lot of writing and talk out there that the fame, plugged in, money admission door has been effectively closed. you gotta remember, though, that kids in that category usually have top-flight prep educations and resources are there to make them the best they can be ... couple that with the fact that these families do still churn out bright people - not just the dumbshits we read about - and it's not that surprising that several still get there.

Chelsea Clinton was no dummy - her parents, love 'em or hate 'em, are fucking brilliant human beings.
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I'd hit it.
 
Robert Kennedy Jr's daughter got into Stanford. I'm pretty sure she's a genius and notoriety had nothing to do with it.
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you don't know what you don't know.

no idea, I just know there is a lot of writing and talk out there that the fame, plugged in, money admission door has been effectively closed. you gotta remember, though, that kids in that category usually have top-flight prep educations and resources are there to make them the best they can be ... couple that with the fact that these families do still churn out bright people - not just the dumbshits we read about - and it's not that surprising that several still get there.

Chelsea Clinton was no dummy - her parents, love 'em or hate 'em, are fucking brilliant human beings.
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I'd hit it.
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Robert Kennedy Jr's daughter got into Stanford. I'm pretty sure she's a genius and notoriety had nothing to do with it.
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you don't know what you don't know.

no idea, I just know there is a lot of writing and talk out there that the fame, plugged in, money admission door has been effectively closed. you gotta remember, though, that kids in that category usually have top-flight prep educations and resources are there to make them the best they can be ... couple that with the fact that these families do still churn out bright people - not just the dumbshits we read about - and it's not that surprising that several still get there.

Chelsea Clinton was no dummy - her parents, love 'em or hate 'em, are fucking brilliant human beings.
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I'd hit it.
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BRB, JO
 
Robert Kennedy Jr's daughter got into Stanford. I'm pretty sure she's a genius and notoriety had nothing to do with it.
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you don't know what you don't know.

no idea, I just know there is a lot of writing and talk out there that the fame, plugged in, money admission door has been effectively closed. you gotta remember, though, that kids in that category usually have top-flight prep educations and resources are there to make them the best they can be ... couple that with the fact that these families do still churn out bright people - not just the dumbshits we read about - and it's not that surprising that several still get there.

Chelsea Clinton was no dummy - her parents, love 'em or hate 'em, are fucking brilliant human beings.
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I'd hit it.
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You just rescued this thread.
 
what the fuck... i thought academic talk was for doogs on doogman. I prefer to come on here for bashing doogman, chris fatters, kimmy, pictures of sluts, oh and football.
 
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