I am not knocking your generosity, but I would not be surprised if all three are operating under the same umbrella, and sharing database.

Hey Comrade, now "marginalized"? Convince me that you are not reading from the Red Book. But , before you accuse me of belittling marginalized folks, tell me what in my post suggested which group my kid is in at that school?

Heck, I am just joking around. The only time I would expect to read meritocratic ideal, scrap/holes, and lesser cadre/classes in a sentence is in a socialist/communist manisfesto.

Whoa Comrade, not out to incite an uprising of the working masses.

In fact, for meritocrats to abandon exams is self-defeating. Scores may be correlated with privilege, but they are probably the hardest part of an admissions application to warp with money. Children of the rich can get ample help in completing their coursework (which may receive inflated grades), hire professional writers to “edit” their essays and even spend lavishly on consultants who will help craft a delectable smorgasbord of extra-curricular activities. Yet research shows that intensive tutoring has a marginal effect on test scores. That is why, in the Varsity Blues scandal of 2019, very rich parents paid to have others sit their children’s exams. My kid is graduating from a s0-called very "elite" private k-12 school. the school is in the middle of one of those zip codes. The surrounding homes are well over $1 million, the middle range is into 8 figures. k-6 class sizes are capped at 60 students per grade. Admission to K is almost all students whose family can afford private college like tuition starting at K, and still are able to donate annually. The hook for these family is that it guarantees their kid admission to the school's nationally ranked high school. Admissions know the value of every home. They know who they are picking. It is not very diverse. But grade levels goes from 60 students at 6th to 120 at 7th grade. Admission adds 60 new 7th graders every year. All the new students come in with test scores, and academic track record. The school then fills its need for athletic, musical/artistic skills, and whatever the else the school wants. This is also when the financial aid and urm students are admitted. The school's average SAT is 1400. Of the 120 graduating class, the 15-20 top SAT scorers go to the less than 5% admission rate schools. The vast majority of the 1500+ SAT scores are the financial aid kids and urm admitted at 7th grade. These are also the the NMSF finalists . The families at this school can and do pay $5,000-7,500 for test prep classes. But the financial aid kids and urms mostly study with prep books (sorry Kahn, but none of these kids use you for much of anything). So, yes, I agree that test is the easiest and cheapest way for urms to stand out.

You have to parse the words on this one. Did it say racial minority or under represented minority group. - URM- are not limited to racial groups but can include economic or geographical minorities for that school. Hence, a poor white applicant from Alaska might be consideredl an URM for a northeastern school. I would accept it if you believe that he qualified under a broader definition.of URM. Otherwise, without stating the reasons for your concerns, I would confirm that the scholarship was intended for him.

Kid received a likely letter.

I am not much of a sports fan. Can go a whole season without watching a single game. But, I've learned that I can have an hour long meaningful conversation in some parts of the country ,on any subject, without saying anything more than how about the Boys, how bout those Eggles, go War Eagles., and The University of Oklahoma.

March 30, 2023, 5:00 pm e.s.t.

Unless something is obviously wrong, I would eat it especially if it being thoroughly cooked. Found this on Quora: After discovering that your meat package was left out, open it, look at it, smell it, feel the surface. If it’s already greenish, with a very sour foul odour, and a slimy surface, the choice it up to you: You may not want to cook it and for peace of mind you may want to discard it (but it probably wouldn’t hurt you in any case!). Otherwise, raw meat is highly contaminated on the outer surfaces- yes! But if cooked properly, it will be perfectly fine. Now as I write this some people with good intentions are reaching for their keyboard eager to tell me about the perils of E. coli, Salmonella, Staphylococcus, Botulism, toxins, the FDA 2 hr “limit”, etc. So here goes: Vegetative cells (e.g. E. coli, Salmonella, etc.) are all destroyed by proper cooking, just as you do with poultry. No toxin-producer affects raw meat in 8 hrs. The only thing that grows rapidly on raw meat is SPOILAGE organisms. They don’t cause disease, only decay, and they outgrow the pathogens. The advice about the fabled “2 hr limit”, is designed for READY-TO-EAT-FOODS (egg salad sandwiches, sliced ham, cabbage rolls, etc., etc.,), not raw meat. Specifically, most regulations define these foods as “Food which can support the growth of pathogens or the production of their toxins”. Raw meat is NOT in this group. And even then, it’s overkill, designed for people who cut corners anyway. The “lag time” for pathogen growth after having reached ideal growth temperature, is closer to 4–6 hrs. I have been investigating, teaching, consulting, and writing about food borne illnesses on four continents, and never once have we encountered a case of illness due to raw meat being kept too long before proper cooking. Refrigeration only arrived less than 100 years ago….. What do you think happened to people eating meat for the tens of thousands of years before then?

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I am trying to understand this very late interview request from my son's 1st or 3rd choice school: The U asked me to reach out to you and conduct an interview to add color to your application. The interviewer said he just got the request from the U, and the U told him they needed it done in the next two days. He interviewed with all the other schools, but this seemed so odd.???

whoops. "not adaptive".

International digital testing stared 2/24/23. College Board has posted system requirements, and 2 sample tests. Test are not exactly like actual test because they are adaptive. Bu, it will give you an idea of new question formats. https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/digital/digital-practice-preparation.

Check the venue's website. Around here, all the major stadiums and arena give transportation options (bus, rail, etc). . Most have free or discount shuttles from remote park and ride lots.

While the service seems to guarantee payment if the buyer "accepts" the car, who pays for return if the buyer doesn't? I would also be concerned that the able buyer stripping parts from car before returning it. BTW, in my younger days, I purchased several cars from Lease return dealers in Houston, I would fly-in, inspect car, and start 22 hour drive to So.Cal. Buyer Accepts the Vehicle - When the buyer receives the vehicle, they have a number of days equal to the agreed-upon inspection period to inspect the vehicle. If the vehicle meets the requisite standard, the buyer informs Escrow.com they have accepted the car.

a long time ago, I did a month in Asia right after college. We had jobs waiting when we got home, and enough money saved that cost was not a concern as long as we stuck to nicer middle class hotels, and travel, with an occasional splurge. A month seemed to drag on. I would probably have been happier with 14-21 days.

The Atlantic did a summary of recent research regarding social mobility and elite colleges. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/does-it-matter-where-you-go-college/577816/

AC people call it a two zone system. There is valve that controls air flow between our upstairs.and downstair. Our was configured this way when we upgraded air and heat

Do check out Matrips' NMF list to see if one of the full ride schools appeal to you.

The most romantic meal I ever had was an old family spaghetti recipe cooked on an old electric burner in a dorm room.

Physics Prep offers excellent online self paced courses in AP Physics 1 &2, and AP Physics C. Go with physics c if he has calculus under his belt, or can take it concurrently.

What about the long term devastating effects of his introduction of cocaine to the inner cities. Cities are still suffering. Po

I will sell you mine. I used it daily for two months and now it has gathered dust for two years.