Helicopter Parents Revisited

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Are you also aware that there are "ADVISORS" for these students as well and they get paid very well for their services. Why a senior who is a straight A 1500 plus SAT student needs an "ADVISOR" is beyond me but they do

I've heard that some advisors have been recommending that students deliberately misspell a word or use wrong grammar in their essays so they won't look so "staged."

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Pardon me infield08, but don't you mean "stagged"?

Here we go again, "the root of all evil" the parents.

balk


Just citing an article

Here we go again--people not reading what they are looking at

Oh Sorry !!! you are in DFW--you guys seem to have all the answers here but in your own forum you fight like cats in HEAT

TRhit,

I read exactly what I was looking at and my reference had nothing to do with you. I was referring to another published article "Time" doing an article about parents. We seem to be a little touchy this morning T.

As far as talking about DFW folks, that's not even worth debating.

Have a good day TRhit.

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Originally posted by gotwood4sale:
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Pardon me infield08, but don't you mean "stagged"?

stag[2,verb]
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): stagged; stag-ging
Etymology: stag (informer)
Date: 1796
transitive verb
British : to spy on
intransitive verb
: to attend a dance or party without a companion

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Originally posted by TRhit:
Here we go again--people not reading what they are looking at

Oh Sorry !!! you are in DFW--you guys seem to have all the answers here but in your own forum you fight like cats in HEAT

There you go again.





Actually, I thought that was sort of funny since I've seen you stir them up. But some of our friends in Texas may not feel the same. Are you trying to incite more off-topic TRouble?

I don't know, was balk's comment directed at TR?

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TRouble

I like that

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Originally posted by MTS:

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Originally posted by gotwood4sale:
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Pardon me infield08, but don't you mean "stagged"?

stag[2,verb]
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): stagged; stag-ging
Etymology: stag (informer)
Date: 1796
transitive verb
British : to spy on
intransitive verb
: to attend a dance or party without a companion

You mean as in, "Gotwood attended the masquerade party wearing the front end of a male deer costume on the advice of his sage advisor, play baseball, hoping to spy on his daughters who were suspected of underage drinking (Stag beer), even though it was obvious that he wasn't the only stooge staging this stag party from which he staggered home?"
And who was stuck staggering behind Gotwood breathing the stagnant air that stunk up the stag's backstage? Could it have been Stagwinkle? Stage Dad 9? Buck Rodgers? Dear Old Dad? Spizzlestag?

Or was it infidel_08?
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Did you know that the entry level GPA to get into UCLA was 4.6 this year. Think about that. Thats not athletes, just to be a student there.It has gotten very competitive to get into college , here in Ca. where, we are students are being turned away at state schools in so. cal with 4.0. So if that was my kid who worked hard like that and needed an advisor to get an edge then so be it. no different than getting private hitting lessons for a baseball player. I have done that so that makes me a helicopther parent.
my son took a class tp prepare for SATs, you almost have to. its a competitive world and straight A s alone dont do it anymore.
some of these students have hours and hours of community service, tons of AP classes, high SAT scores, just brilliant young people and they are getting turned down at least here in Ca. they are. Its a tough situation.If your student worked as hard as some of these kids you might hire an advisor too if it was there dream.

One of my son's BF was class valedictorian, 4.5 and 1500+ SAT's.
She had to opt for a state school, she had trouble getting into top academic schools, her top choice Duke. Money for education was no object.

Yet my son's friend got into Duke with no trouble (with lessor grades) on a baseball scholarship. He didn't last there.

If my child works that hard all of his/her life and has trouble getting into their dream school, as a parent I am gonna try to pull out all the stops and seek help if I have to.

Sometimes we just don't realize how lucky our baseball players are.

JMO.

One need's to keep in mind that many schools are into diversification with regard to their student population.

My nephew got caught up in it coming out of his HS on Long Island--he was a staright A , 1600 SAT studnet and national merit schoalrship studnet---he was refused at Duke and accepted at Dartmouth. The reason for the rejection at Duke: too many students from his locale

We had a player a few years back who had his heart set on going to Emory---he could not get in because they had their quota of students from his state

Almost the same situation with my niece dreaming about Notre Dame---perfect SAT, perfect ACT, National Merit Scholar--and didn't get in. Reason? Too many kids from her zip code.

"Settled" for Northwestern.

That ain't a bad way to "settle"

That may well be. Florida state schools are very tight with not accepting out of state students so I hear it's hard. But most of teh schools were private, maybe they have different criteria.

Private schools most definitely shoot for geographic diversification in their admissions process. No question about it.

Some now shoot for international diversification.

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Originally posted by justbaseball:
Private schools most definitely shoot for geographic diversification in their admissions process. No question about it.

Some now shoot for international diversification.

Back in the 70's my father said the best way to get accepted to his alma mater was to be a black woman from North Dakota. This was after the school went co-ed and was still male slanted. Diversity was becoming an issue. No one from North Dakota was in the school.

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If my child works that hard all of his/her life and has trouble getting into their dream school, as a parent I am gonna try to pull out all the stops and seek help if I have to.

There's a difference between making a call to get a kid into college and hovering over and managing their college experience. Connections make the world go 'round.

Of course I called the three influential alumni I know from my father's college when my daughter was looking into colleges. It was of value for them to know a possible seventh generation was on the way.

Then my daughter became a family black sheep like dad when she chose to play at a higher level in warm weather.

Gotwood,
I believe Staegid is the proper misspelling. (Had to spell check misspell.)