Sometimes the Philadelphia Inquirer writes stories that make it painfully obvious that they just don’t quite get Penn. (For example, that silly article about Shoutouts.) Today the Inky printed a piece entitled “Race to College: Ali’s Choice,” in which high school senior Ali reluctantly decides she likes Penn despite Cornell being her first choice (!). We feel this chick’s agony (okay, not really…we applied early) — the college admissions process sucks. But the Inquirer paints Penn as a place people are settling for.
Kirby, another high school senior, is choosing among five different schools. She ends up deciding on Penn: ”The only downfall was that it is in Philadelphia,” said Kirby. “But think of the connections I’ll get.” First of all, we love Philly! Secondly, we’re guessing she’s in Wharton.
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Not only did we get presidentially AND vice-presidentially snubbed for commencement (not that we care; we’re covered) but it turns out that high school kids and their parents dream a little dream of… other schools. As in Stanford, Harvard, Columbia, Yale and NYU. We could be mean (sing a song about it, perhaps?) but since we’re bigger people than that, we’ll just let that go. Look at it this way: 66% of those high school students are stressed out about getting into college. Been there, done that. Suckers.
An article from yesterday’s Times explores the controversy surrounding the College Board’s reinstated score choice policy. After a seven-year hiatus, score choice is back for the SATs and SAT IIs (and let us not forget that score choice has always been the policy of the Midwestern-friendly ACTs). While we’re glad we don’t have to go through the college admissions process again, we do wish we had had score choice back in the day.
However, according to the Times, Penn (along with Stanford, USC and Claremont-McKenna) disagrees with the CB’s decision and is planning to ask students to send all of their scores. Ummmm… good luck with that, Eric Furda. Sure, some schools think this is the College Board’s way of capitalizing on the neurosis of overachieving students in pursuit of that elusive 1600 2400. And maybe it is. But this is also a policy that is shared by that other Annoying College Test the ACT, and one that really does ultimately benefit students.
What do you think? Hit us up in the comments.
Stetson, shmetson.
Penn’s admissions office released its Early Decision results today at 3 p.m. We’re sure Dean of Admissions Lee Stetson Eric Furda and his crew will do a stellar job providing us with some new freshmen to fill the class of 2013. Our friends over at the DP did some number crunching. Some of their more interesting findings included that there were 40 less applications from Harvard-Westlake California and also a clear drop in the number of overambitious tools students who applied to Wharton.
Congratulations, Class of 2013.
Einstein was a tutor once... wasn't he?
You may just be able to leverage your degree into a job as a tutor!
As the NY Sun reported today, our Ivy League credentials can let us ask for the big bucks — think rates of $100+/hour — when helping high-strung high schoolers craft their personal statement and prepare for the SATs.
Though Benjamin Franklin said that only death and taxes are certain, clearly college admissions anxiety should be included on that list. And with the economy tanking, it is nice to have something to count on… especially if we can’t count on our degrees for much else.
