To All the White Girls Who Didn't Get into the College of their Dreams

Re: Suzy Lee Weiss ("And then there’s Suzy Lee Weiss who claims a 4.5 GPA, a 2120 SAT score, and spot as a US Senate Page.")

You don't need to blame affirmative action for that rejection. 2120 (~1410 on the older scale for people my age) was Duke/Cornell numbers back when I was applying to colleges a dozen years ago, and these days it's Berkely/Michigan/Virginia numbers. That's the nature of a system where populations grow but class sizes stay the same at top colleges. The other stuff is meaningless--you can easily inflate your way to a 4.0+ GPA these days now that schools have eagerly rushed to label everything AP, and being a Senate page just means you know a Senator (your parents being rich and living in D.C. is enough) .

I can't believe this kid got on T.V.

A terrible title for a reasonably good article.

It does underemphasize how much getting into a specific school is kind of a lottery even for the highly qualified. I knew plenty of people who applied to pretty much every top school, and got into some small number of them -- in some cases including their first choice. My sister applied to a bunch of highly ranked schools -- many rejected her, but she made it into Yale.

The somewhat arbitrary & capricious nature of admissions is part of what feeds into this whole complex the article discusses.

I think it's a play on Suzy's op-ed "To (All) the Colleges That Rejected Me".

Ok, point to something specifically racist.