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Re: Not recommended for credential
Posted by Get some help! on 5/05/08

    Rodeo, wow you are proficient in the art of generalization. Stop faulting your
    inadequacies on your perception of how others' maintained their lives.

    On 5/02/08, Rodeo to Seven and Stomach lady wrote:
    > Hey Seven,
    >
    > Some of the UC schools can treat their students really badly. I
    > went to UCLA and had a similar experience. That is kind of how
    > the UC's operate I think if you are in a North campus type major
    > like teaching credential or such.
    >
    > The UC's are like their own country. In 2000 or 2002, so many
    > UCLA students got medals in the Olympics that if they would have
    > been a country then UCLA would have been like 7th in the world
    > for medals. UC is a very powerful system. Nobody can censure
    > them. They know it. You know how California voters voted to
    > outlaw affirmative action. Well, UC disagrees with that so they
    > have instituted several back door procedures to continue
    > affirmative action. For example, they do not require the SAT for
    > students transferring in from community college. This allows
    > them to admit many minority students who would never get in
    > otherwise. Do you think they are letting in many white or asian
    > students from community college?
    >
    > Also, I have heard that they are one of the school admissions
    > that give huge admissions points for O Woe Is Me letters. This
    > is where minority students tell them a sob story for how rough
    > their childhood was. A student can get more points for a good wa-
    > wa letter than for a perfect SAT score. And do you think there
    > is any way to verify that the crap in those letters is even
    > true. Do you think that they are giving any admissions points
    > for a white student that writes about how their Mom was a single
    > mother and their step dad diddled them and their dog died on
    > their 4th birthday and they were raised by a wolf pack after
    > being lost in a tragic camping incident and they only survived
    > by suckling on the teat of the alpha female who took a liking to
    > them and protected them from being eaten by the rest of the pack
    > and their foster parents used to burn them with cigarette butts
    > and not let them eat anything but 1 can of Alpo a day?
    >
    > Admissions points for cry baby letters...my God what has this
    > country come to?
    >
    > Hey Stomach lady,
    >
    > Don't worry about this person being nasty to you saying you have
    > bad grammar. I didn't notice anything outrageously bad in
    > spelling or grammar in your post. This is a chatboard. The
    > conversations are conversational. We aren't writing term papers.
    > Have you ever had to transcribe spoken conversation into
    > writing? It doesn't follow conventional written grammar. It
    > isn't meant to because the main point is to just get across your
    > message. Just ignore that post.

     
     

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