In the interests of strictest accuracy, I did low-level database programming, supervised our department's implementation of our part of a large database product conversion, trained and supported our users, and wrote and ran reports. I was the in-house computer geek.
I didn't make admissions decisions, I wasn't an admissions counselor, but I wrote the reports that pulled the lists which meant acceptance, so I was intimately familiar with the criteria applied each year for the four years I worked there.
Undergraduate admissions also included marketing and recruiting to and of those new prospective students each term, and so forth.
My work over four years made me intimately familiar with all aspects of the process by which a selective university puts together each new freshman class. That includes the shop talk about how the M&R and admissions procedures and priorities at other schools both higher and lower on the food chain differed from ours. Including Ivy League, as I interacted a lot on the job with my boss's boss, who graduated from Harvard.
ASR a traditional prep school? ASR even remotely in the same league as a traditional prep school? ASR even in the farm team minor leagues among the traditional prep schools?
Not even close.
The closest ASR comes to a traditional prep school is the mileage statistic from MapQuest about how far they are from the nearest real one.
The only thing ASR has in common with a real New England traditional prep school is being in New England and having teenagers in it.
I suppose having high school, even unaccredited, is another similarity, barely. Given the number of accredited high schools in Massachusetts, that hardly amounts to a nodding acquaintance.
Again, laughable if it weren't so tragic that some idiots actually believe it.
Julie
