The Scout

@bostonorctfan @stelzner_n1150 Agree - people don’t always realize how that stuff adds up. I’ve also seen people that refuse to part with a dollar and the act of saving becomes a lifelong pursuit and they lose the 40 good years of their lives.

@CarbonIndian @stelzner_n1150 Exactly. But either way opting to use a full hour of pay to buy an unnecessary costing lunch is a choice people can make. If done repeatedly , there will be consequences on the other end. Simple: you buy what you can afford and still keep yourself protected.

A Chipotle burrito costs $15. Ground beef is $7 a pound. Inflation is financially crippling Gen Z. Once again, an out-of-touch rich boomer is lecturing young people.

@bostonorctfan @stelzner_n1150 It depends what you value. I personally don’t value chipotle so it’s easy to get a $12 healthy salad. But dying richer than another person isn’t a goal. Of course you must plan for retirement but after that, I make sure my family and I spend on enjoying life

@stelzner_n1150 you and those that think alike might benefit from the Dave Ramsey show.. you can enjoy the 28 dollar lunch or the $600 a month car, but doing so alters how you currently live and will eventually live.

@stelzner_n1150 lol. Amazon $15-$20 for wipers. And you don’t have to go to Chipotle. A slice of pizza like we used to get still works.

I replaced my daughter’s wipers today. I went to Advance Auto Parts and installed them on my own and still spent $71 dollars!!! Inflation is completely out of control.

@skuuuuuuuurt @catpoopburglar @marielatrasi @drterrysimpson It’s in the numbers. So yes there is.

@CarbonIndian @catpoopburglar @marielatrasi @drterrysimpson What handout?? White women were the main beneficiaries of affirmative action and DEI has been stripped so can’t use that bullshit excuse anymore. No one is getting handouts to participate in rigorous degree programs.

I understand why many Asian families feel frustrated in elite admissions systems. In intensely competitive environments, there is a real perception — and sometimes evidence — that exceptional academic performance still does not guarantee admission. That feeling should not be dismissed. But admissions committees also confront another reality: if you have 100 applicants from privileged, high-performing educational pipelines with nearly identical scores, resumes, research access, tutoring, and opportunities, it is not irrational to also value the applicant who achieved similar academic success despite poverty, instability, underfunded schools, family hardship, or lack of institutional advantages. That is not abandoning merit. It is recognizing that achievement exists in context. And medicine especially is not merely selecting expert test takers. It is selecting future physicians who will care for human beings across every class, culture, language, and circumstance in society. The irony is that many people who defend “objective merit” often become deeply uncomfortable the moment merit is evaluated in anything broader than a percentile ranking.

@skuuuuuuuurt @catpoopburglar @marielatrasi @drterrysimpson There is because they don’t accept Asians with scores that low. If it wasn’t rigged you would see Asians with the saner lower score accepted but you won’t see that. Different, lower standard. It’s all in the data.

@CarbonIndian @catpoopburglar @marielatrasi @drterrysimpson There is no such thing as scoring low when you’ve met the requirements and received an acceptance letter you fcking imbecile. I wouldn’t expect people to understand who’s never seen an employment offer letter let alone an acceptance letter to understand.

@skuuuuuuuurt @catpoopburglar @marielatrasi @drterrysimpson I am sad that this occurs bc it demeans the members of these groups that actually are excellent. Because of the obvious lower standard, how do you differentiate the standouts from the handouts? You should be against this as well. It’s not good in the long run.

@CarbonIndian @catpoopburglar @marielatrasi @drterrysimpson I don’t know what they have because I’m not a college admissions professional to make that determination. You aren’t either. You should be happy for anyone who meets the qualifications to be accepted into great programs.

@skuuuuuuuurt @catpoopburglar @marielatrasi @drterrysimpson And you’re the only person that thinks that the minority applicants happen to have better EC’s. If that were the case we’d see other races with lower scores accepted too. You should be pushing back on these practices as well as it devalues those who deserve it.

@CarbonIndian @catpoopburglar @marielatrasi @drterrysimpson There’s no take care of a crashing patient at 2am test either but those things can be evaluated by way of the other factors like interviews, letters & extra curricular activities. All of which was mentioned that you all conveniently are bypassing.

@TommyNova1776 @EDSecMcMahon They should ban all federal and private loans. If the schools had to worry about getting paid (like every other business), you’d see tuition drop, administration levels get lean, and majors with no payback eliminated.

@EDSecMcMahon Schools should be on the hook for tuition reimbursement, not taxpayers. Most college students should be at trade schools or employer sponsored training programs.

The Trump Administration is ending the era of runaway tuition hikes fueled by unchecked borrowing access. Schools had no incentive to control costs and students, families, and taxpayers got stuck with the bill. We put a stop to it.

@karma17227 @EDSecMcMahon So you were ok with private, uber-liberal institutions who don’t practice what they preach and are charging way too much at taxpayer expense?

@EDSecMcMahon Colleges are not slashing prices. The only people getting screwed by Trumps bullshit policies are the American people who now are having to take out private loans and if they can’t, kids aren’t able to go to college. I’m sure that was the plan all along. Fuck trump.

@WeSee2024 @MilennialBoom They? Every Dem candidate talk about how the “other races” are bad. That absolutely is not the messaging on the R side.

@MilennialBoom Exactly! People don’t know that. It’s so many poor Whites in the South it’s sad actually. This not a Black and White issue. It’s rich vs poor! They want us fighting these cultural wars.

You ain’t seen poverty like Southern & Deep South poverty. And you get tripped out by how many poor whites you see. That’s when your mind gets real blown. 100% Republican led & been that way for generations. City poverty ain’t got nothing on rural poverty…

@Kyr504 @MilennialBoom Your chance of being the victim of a violent crime in Atlanta is 1:139. What stupid low bar of success have you set?

@MilennialBoom Was listening to a podcast about Atlanta from other major Southern cities...they embraced black folks getting money early on and it opened up the city . Birmingham,Jackson,N.O etc all major cities were being sabotage by their states and that's why they never took off

@RudySchulz1 @MilennialBoom Your chance of being the victim of a violent crime in Atlanta is 1:139. What stupid low bar of success have you set?

And? You gotta understand that we'd rather have Republicans not telling us what we have to do and be poor than a bunch of cock suckin crazy democrats who mock our values, forcing us to do shit we don't want to do. We work for what we got and yeah, it ain't much, but it's ours. So fuck off.

@beerswithboggs @drterrysimpson That’s an obvious outcome. Schools all vying for the same higher scoring minorities so they can check the box while not tanking their averages too much. It’s all virtue signaling.

So if we are solving for poor - why aren’t we solving for poor? Give affirmative action to poor kids, why on earth would you provide a huge boost to one race, regardless of their socioeconomic status, while actually making it harder for Asian and whites from exactly the background you claim to want to help? In fact studies have shown the biggest beneficiaries of affirmative action are not poor blacks but middle and upper class blacks, so again, we aren’t really solving for what you claim to care about

@FriendofUST @catpoopburglar @marielatrasi @drterrysimpson All the applicant has to say is they are a minority and all the other things are assumed. Thats pretty racist. You also missed that they ignore these same sad stories for other races.

@catpoopburglar @marielatrasi @drterrysimpson "catpoolburglar" is willfully ignoring all points made about someone getting 99th percentile scores with every privilege out there is not as impressive as someone who gets a high score w/o a lifetime of tutoring, test prep, and only working jobs that pad a resume, not pay bills.

@catpoopburglar @marielatrasi @drterrysimpson You are being too kind. There is no empathy admissions test. They look at only one variable. This empathy argument is to help them feel better about the clear cut discrimination.

No, the question we are asking is why so many Asians with higher test scores are rejected in favor of other favored minorities. If you are saying it is because a holistic admissions process that values empathy over test scores, you still have to demonstrate that the Asians with high test scores rejected were some how worse in “empathy”

@drterrysimpson @catpoopburglar That’s some pivot!

this isn't an engineering problem. MCAT and GPA are the bar that enters then we make the decisions from interviews, letters, activities. MCAT and GPA are not good indicators of who will make a good doctor - good doctors have to have empathy, compassion, and be able to take care of a crashing patient at 2 am. We cannot put that on a test - so we see them, face to face and read what others say and make the decision. Ask your favorite doctor their mcat score.

@MonarchosMatt @smbartle @wil_da_beast630 It should but they keep dumbing everything down.

@smbartle @wil_da_beast630 Yup. I went to public school and even there the battle was intense. I got a B+ sophomore year and a B+ senior year. The rest As. Guess what? That wasn’t good enough to be Valedictorian and I was fine with that result. Four years of perfection should be near impossible.

Wait. What did the valedictorian say?

@3RenChengHu @smbartle @wil_da_beast630 21 kids that got a 4.0 is already a sign the school has dumbed things down. Plus it obviously should include more than just GPA.

@smbartle @wil_da_beast630 Apparently it was a 21-way tie for top GPA. They should have used test scores as a tiebreaker.

@smbartle @wil_da_beast630 Typical public school stuff. Dumb everything down. Getting a 4.0 is too easy and then not having the guts to pick one most deserving person. So glad my kids went private.

@wil_da_beast630 Another clue to problems with most hardest is that there are 21 valedictorians at this high school, which now makes the valedictorian label a participation trophy.