University of Texas has been ascending through the US Federal Court system for years.Īnd yet Suzy is right, even if she doesn’t know it. And if Suzy actually read the pages of the newspaper in which she wants her “satire” to be widely distributed, she would have known that Fisher v. It’s not as though colleges try to hide this stuff: Brown posts its affirmative action policy on its web site. If Suzy actually were honest, her closet-emerging, head-dress wearing polemics are far from the heroic truth-telling she fantasizes. By not addressing that point, these responses seem to say implicitly, “Yes, you were lied to-but in the name of diversity.” That, to my mind, grants Weiss far too much credit.īecause in fact, Suzy wasn’t lied to at all. Kendra James at points out the double-standard of “blame the blacks” narrative when white girls fail to get into college, they have that option, but when minorities do not, whom can they blame? And Aaliyah Martin writes the best combative response yet: “ I Took Your Spot at Harvard.”īut each of these responses has a fatal flaw: they fail to address Suzy’s fundamental claim, not that she was treated unfairly, but in fact that “we were lied to,” as Weiss asserts. The reactions to the Op-Ed covered usual territory, although some are remarkably searing. It’s a wonderful introspective into the minds of entitled and, to be fair, brutally overworked and overstressed high school teenagers (in an aside, what should readers conclude when the ostensibly nonpartisan motivations of a naïve teenage girl perfectly align with the talking points of the anti-pluralism right?).

Read Weiss’s inflammatory article here if you haven’t done so. Rather than take the news gracefully, Suzy took to the streets-er, the pages of the Wall Street Journal. 000 admissions batting average for her top college choices of Yale, Princeton and Penn.

Maybe you’ve heard this one: Suzy Weiss is a graduating high school senior who sported a.

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