Legacy situation

[KeithK]

[quote billhoward][quote KeithK][quote billhoward]There is the compensating advantage of the awesome outfits the girls wear to class.[/quote]You must not have daughters...[/quote]
Our neighbors' daughters think the outfits are awesome, too. Leaving only their parents a mite unhappy.[/quote]
My only problem with the outfits is that girls weren't wearing them when I was in school.  (What did you say Robb?  Why did I have to be in college during grunge?)  But then, I don't have daughters either.

[Robb]

[quote KeithK][quote billhoward][quote KeithK][quote billhoward]There is the compensating advantage of the awesome outfits the girls wear to class.[/quote]You must not have daughters...[/quote]
Our neighbors' daughters think the outfits are awesome, too. Leaving only their parents a mite unhappy.[/quote]
My only problem with the outfits is that girls weren't wearing them when I was in school.  (What did you say Robb?  Why did I have to be in college during grunge?)  But then, I don't have daughters either.[/quote]
Hey, flannel shirts and ripped baggy jeans are HOT - I don't care what anyone says.  ::cry::

[Annoying name here]

[quote BillCharlton][quote nyc94]To add to what Robb said, Cornell has routinely putting out press releases about the record number of applications they have been receiving as have most of the Ivies.  Whatever they are calling the current generation of high school kids - Gen Y, Boomer Echo, etc. - there are a heck of a lot more of them than there was in 1990 when I applied and I wonder if I would be accepted at Cornell now.  My high school routinely graduated 400 a year into the mid-80s and then the numbers started dropping until bottoming out around 220 in about 1993.  They are over 400 again and the town had to build a new middle school, build an addition to the high school, and reopen an elementary school that had been shuttered.  Overall the town population has only slightly increased.

Just wondering chominky, did your son also apply to Arts?[/quote]

Don't overestimate Gen Y. They are not smarter than past generations; they certainly are not better educated. Back in my day, kids used to read books instead of surfing the Internet and playing video games! We also were not overly concerned with finding ways to maximize our SAT scores. We just took the SATs and lived with the result. I get the impression that many of the "wunderkinder" today play the recruiting game better and get "coached up" to maximize their scores. Had we grown up in the same environment, I'm sure we could have done the same.[/quote]

FYP for German speakers.

And who is partly responsible for putting into place and perpetuating the system that encourages such behavior among young people today? PWNED.

[madAgaskar07]

[quote Annoying Name Here][quote BillCharlton][quote nyc94]To add to what Robb said, Cornell has routinely putting out press releases about the record number of applications they have been receiving as have most of the Ivies.  Whatever they are calling the current generation of high school kids - Gen Y, Boomer Echo, etc. - there are a heck of a lot more of them than there was in 1990 when I applied and I wonder if I would be accepted at Cornell now.  My high school routinely graduated 400 a year into the mid-80s and then the numbers started dropping until bottoming out around 220 in about 1993.  They are over 400 again and the town had to build a new middle school, build an addition to the high school, and reopen an elementary school that had been shuttered.  Overall the town population has only slightly increased.

Just wondering chominky, did your son also apply to Arts?[/quote]

Don't overestimate Gen Y. They are not smarter than past generations; they certainly are not better educated. Back in my day, kids used to read books instead of surfing the Internet and playing video games! We also were not overly concerned with finding ways to maximize our SAT scores. We just took the SATs and lived with the result. I get the impression that many of die Wunderkinder today play the recruiting game better and get "coached up" to maximize their scores. Had we grown up in the same environment, I'm sure we could have done the same.[/quote]

FYP for German speakers.

And who is partly responsible for putting into place and perpetuating the system that encourages such behavior among young people today? PWNED.[/quote]

FYP.  Why stop there?

[jtwcornell91]

[quote madAgaskar07][quote Annoying Name Here][quote BillCharlton][quote nyc94]To add to what Robb said, Cornell has routinely putting out press releases about the record number of applications they have been receiving as have most of the Ivies.  Whatever they are calling the current generation of high school kids - Gen Y, Boomer Echo, etc. - there are a heck of a lot more of them than there was in 1990 when I applied and I wonder if I would be accepted at Cornell now.  My high school routinely graduated 400 a year into the mid-80s and then the numbers started dropping until bottoming out around 220 in about 1993.  They are over 400 again and the town had to build a new middle school, build an addition to the high school, and reopen an elementary school that had been shuttered.  Overall the town population has only slightly increased.

Just wondering chominky, did your son also apply to Arts?[/quote]

Don't overestimate Gen Y. They are not smarter than past generations; they certainly are not better educated. Back in my day, kids used to read books instead of surfing the Internet and playing video games! We also were not overly concerned with finding ways to maximize our SAT scores. We just took the SATs and lived with the result. I get the impression that many of den Wunderkindern today play the recruiting game better and get "coached up" to maximize their scores. Had we grown up in the same environment, I'm sure we could have done the same.[/quote]

FYP for German speakers.

And who is partly responsible for putting into place and perpetuating the system that encourages such behavior among young people today? PWNED.[/quote]

FYP.  Why stop there?[/quote]

What you said.