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GAT_00

2009-12-18 11:58:04 PM

Abuse of worthless Ivy League schools aside, that's pretty cool.

TheOther

2009-12-19 12:08:06 AM

Harvard would never stoop to such a crass stunt.

jerry2a

2009-12-19 12:11:43 AM

Come on subby...you don't have to bring up the fact that they're premature. It happens to everybody.

John Paul Jones

2009-12-19 01:55:12 AM

TheOther: Harvard would never stoop to such a crass stunt.

Shirley you can better that,

tallguywithglasseson

2009-12-19 04:12:16 AM

I was going to say "not really beating the odds if their parents went there", but then I read TFA. Nice job, kids.

testaclese

2009-12-19 04:44:08 AM

Man, as their parents, they gotta feel like they did *something* right...
congrats to all of them!

eddyatwork

2009-12-19 06:11:10 AM

If they're smart they'll get a quad and be roomies.

CruiserTwelve

2009-12-19 07:32:56 AM

eddyatwork: If they're smart they'll get a quad and be roomies.

And take the same classes and wear matching clothes every day too!

ManhattanRedneck

2009-12-19 07:52:50 AM

I think the quadruplets accepted to MIT a couple years ago are probably smarter.

Also, that "Yale thing."

/DNRTFA

irgunner

2009-12-19 08:01:53 AM

And they're black. All four of 'em!

luckyeddie

2009-12-19 08:01:59 AM

In this case, two boys and two girls, i.e. two pairs of identical twins.

Wonder if they are mountaineers?

www.intriguing.com

RonEdwards

2009-12-19 08:02:22 AM

one of them wrote an essay about his oblique muscles, one wrote about a short phrase, one wrote about a poor village, and the other wrote about how their moms vajay was destroyed after they burst from her loins with the force of a truck bomb.

coco ebert

2009-12-19 08:22:34 AM

Awesome. God knows Yale needs some positive press.

logophile

2009-12-19 08:27:51 AM

that's very cool.. good for them.

Sass-O-Rev

2009-12-19 08:36:26 AM

I think this is terrific. Great to read such a nice story!

Oobedoob Scoobi-Doobi Benubi

2009-12-19 08:37:46 AM

Hey, I'm from Danbury, that must mean something.

Pauel

2009-12-19 08:43:47 AM

I'm sure affirmative action had a play in it.

Satan_Himself

2009-12-19 08:49:32 AM

coco ebert: Awesome. God knows Yale needs some positive press.

God might know, but Yale obviously does.

orangeglacier

2009-12-19 08:51:49 AM

Yeah, the colleges are big on admitting people who'll give them funny feel good stories and lots of press. Not so much on smart people who, you know, actually know things.

/rejected from MIT 3 days ago
//not bitter, not at all

irwhiteboi

2009-12-19 08:53:22 AM

orangeglacier: Yeah, the colleges are big on admitting people who'll give them funny feel good stories and lots of press. Not so much on smart people who, you know, actually know things.

/rejected from MIT 3 days ago
//not bitter, not at all

Might have something to do with your bitter attitude.

scamp-dun-emer

2009-12-19 08:56:26 AM

Nice jorb, kids.

My buddies were told their prem twins might be kinda slow. They were half right :-(

orangeglacier

2009-12-19 09:00:01 AM

irwhiteboi: orangeglacier: Yeah, the colleges are big on admitting people who'll give them funny feel good stories and lots of press. Not so much on smart people who, you know, actually know things.

/rejected from MIT 3 days ago
//not bitter, not at all

Might have something to do with your bitter attitude.

I wasn't bitter when I applied there, I'm just taking the rejection out on the system in general. And you have to admit that 'legacies' are pretty moronic. How does it make you more qualified for a school if your parents went there?

scamp-dun-emer

2009-12-19 09:01:54 AM

orangeglacier:
/rejected from MIT 3 days ago
//not bitter, not at all

:-( for you

/I'll get you a pint of bitter then, shall I
//no, really, beer is your best option now
///;-)

ph0rk

2009-12-19 09:12:10 AM

Ackbarican_Idol

2009-12-19 09:16:50 AM

I hear Yale has some openings at their research labs

black_knight

2009-12-19 09:19:10 AM

I certainly expected Yale to garner media attention that way.

scamp-dun-emer

2009-12-19 09:33:24 AM

Ackbarican_Idol: I hear Yale has some openings at their research labs

TOO SOON!

/nah, LOL

mike143708

2009-12-19 09:34:52 AM

Awesome story. Our triplets (gratuitous picture below) were five weeks early and the week and a half we spent in the NICU was a nightmare. I can't imagine two+ months. (shudder)

i27.photobucket.com

PPL_Wannabe

2009-12-19 09:41:15 AM

Alternate headline: Quadruplets beat the odds by having their rich parents pay their way through school

Crosshair

2009-12-19 09:45:01 AM

Lets see if all 4 survive their first kegger.

DiscoSuperfly

2009-12-19 09:50:01 AM

orangeglacier: irwhiteboi: orangeglacier: Yeah, the colleges are big on admitting people who'll give them funny feel good stories and lots of press. Not so much on smart people who, you know, actually know things.

/rejected from MIT 3 days ago
//not bitter, not at all

Might have something to do with your bitter attitude.

I wasn't bitter when I applied there, I'm just taking the rejection out on the system in general. And you have to admit that 'legacies' are pretty moronic. How does it make you more qualified for a school if your parents went there?

MIT doesn't do legacies. They say this explicitly on their alumni donation page.

Doggiewoggie

2009-12-19 09:56:37 AM

You know the parents did something right. Congratulations to the whole family-- they sound smart and functional.

dumbgai

2009-12-19 10:01:03 AM

orangeglacier:
I wasn't bitter when I applied there, I'm just taking the rejection out on the system in general. And you have to admit that 'legacies' are pretty moronic. How does it make you more qualified for a school if your parents went there?

don't worry, if you plan to continue your education after your BS, where you went to undergrad is unimportant. probably doesn't matter too much with a BS either.

also, MIT admissions is pretty farked up to begin with... I knew a kid in high school (~2003) who was on the US Physics and Math Olympiad teams and got turned down from MIT. Unsurprisingly, he got a full scholarship to Caltech, and it turns out the admissions officer that rejected him had fabricated her own college degrees on her resume.

OhioKnight

2009-12-19 10:09:40 AM

Wow, so much for diversity (taking them in in 4 packs)

MattyFridays

2009-12-19 10:18:07 AM

I read the TFA, but the most striking part to me is the part about financial aid.

I know it's Yale. But I also know it's one of the most expensive schools in the country. For four kids. You don't want to take out 4x student loans to go there. You just don't. Get a scholarship, or look elsewhere. Putting yourself into dire financial straits once you graduate is just a horror show waiting to happen.

exempli gratis

2009-12-19 10:19:27 AM

mike143708: Awesome story. Our triplets (gratuitous picture below) were five weeks early and the week and a half we spent in the NICU was a nightmare. I can't imagine two+ months. (shudder)

Great picture.
For contrast, here's one of you from nine months prior:
www.ntoddblog.org

The Madd Man

2009-12-19 10:23:02 AM

PPL_Wannabe: Alternate headline: Quadruplets beat the odds by having their rich parents pay their way through school

From the sounds of things, their parents are anything but rich.

fernanernie

2009-12-19 10:24:45 AM

*cough*

PR Stunt

*cough*

Queensowntalia

2009-12-19 10:25:58 AM

I live in Danbury and I was walking around Yale last night, so I'm getting a kick, etc, etc. (the campus is stunningly gorgeous, FYI. I felt profoundly depressed I'm far too stupid to ever get in).

I like the last name "Crouch." for a while the local paper had it mispelled as "Couch" on their website, and this amused me.

Trustafarian

2009-12-19 10:42:25 AM

First thought: I thought they'd all be Jewish or Asian.

Reading the article: I see they're black, so they were admitted on a lower standard than if they were Jewish or Asian.

One thing I DID know before reading the article: they almost certainly weren't white males (unless they came from an uberrich family).

archichris

2009-12-19 10:44:52 AM

If you had the money to go to Yale, you would be better off to invest it in the down market and sit tight and wait for the recovery. Then when you have millions and millions of dollars in your portfolio and the economy is hiring again, go to a state college and get a degree in something useful like engineering.

Pursue your career safe in the knowledge that you have a multi-million dollar retirement account to fall back on in hard times.

My family went the ivy league route and spent more on one degree than it turned out the degree could earn in fifteen years....awkward.

So I volunteered to go the state school route and earned back my education cost in 2 years. So if you go the ivy league route, choose your major VERY carefully.

WittyTagHere

2009-12-19 10:55:45 AM

Studying and getting into college is what you should do. Just because it's Yale doesn't make them heroes. Clear Hero tag abuse.

Sketch Artist

2009-12-19 11:00:43 AM

These kids seem smart and talented, and it's a shame that some will use the affirmative action argument to devalue their success. I understand that until the "achievement gap" is closed (if it ever really is), affirmative action will continue to exist, but it should probably start evolving to reflect socioeconomic status and other factors, rather than race alone.

Cast

2009-12-19 11:06:23 AM

Having multiple premies is terrifying (or even one I'm sure). My twins were born 10 weeks early and I got to hang out in the NICU for over two months. Horrible horrible place full of parents on the edge of nervous breakdown.

Even though this is fark and the nesting place of some of the most vile of human sentiment, still want to give a shout to all the premie parents and remind you that there is plenty of hope for a normal future.

img222.imageshack.us

Parasitic_Spin

2009-12-19 11:07:18 AM

I wish more schools were "needs blind." Good thing...

Egalitarian

2009-12-19 11:17:19 AM

Oh here we go again. They're black so it must be because of affirmative action or a quad-acceptance stunt.

Maybe, could it be, that these 4 kids are all really smart and well-educated and deserving of an Ivy league education? (And also, their parents are possessed of really good genes).

There seems to be this attitude on Fark and among white people generally that poverty = genetically bad intelligence. Note that this is what the English used to think of the Irish and their own English stuck in poor houses. Nurture & culture have a huge effect on children's outcomes.

\these kids all volunteer at the local public library, that's usually a sign of intelligence, education and forbearance right there

Spontaneous Defenstration

2009-12-19 11:18:05 AM

orangeglacier: irwhiteboi: orangeglacier: Yeah, the colleges are big on admitting people who'll give them funny feel good stories and lots of press. Not so much on smart people who, you know, actually know things.

/rejected from MIT 3 days ago
//not bitter, not at all

Might have something to do with your bitter attitude.

I wasn't bitter when I applied there, I'm just taking the rejection out on the system in general. And you have to admit that 'legacies' are pretty moronic. How does it make you more qualified for a school if your parents went there?

Stanford legacy here. Got rejected flat-out with an SAT of 22xx.

Then again, my father never gave them money.

/got rejected from Stanford, MIT, Princeton, and Caltech!
//is glad about it, since Mudd is pretty much better than all of them for an undergrad STEMS degree

dlewis6

2009-12-19 11:26:29 AM

Egalitarian: Oh here we go again. They're black so it must be because of affirmative action or a quad-acceptance stunt.

Maybe, could it be, that these 4 kids are all really smart and well-educated and deserving of an Ivy league education? (And also, their parents are possessed of really good genes).

There seems to be this attitude on Fark and among white people generally that poverty = genetically bad intelligence. Note that this is what the English used to think of the Irish and their own English stuck in poor houses. Nurture & culture have a huge effect on children's outcomes.

\these kids all volunteer at the local public library, that's usually a sign of intelligence, education and forbearance right there

It's snowing here where I am. What's the weather like in Gumdrop Fairy Tale Land? Sunny, I bet. Lucky sob.

thelordofcheese

2009-12-19 11:34:11 AM

luckyeddie: In this case, two boys and two girls, i.e. two pairs of identical twins.

Wonder if they are mountaineers?

www.altnation.com

IDENTICAL TWINS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!

SuperNinjaToad

2009-12-19 11:38:20 AM

Trustafarian: First thought: I thought they'd all be Jewish or Asian.

Reading the article: I see they're black, so they were admitted on a lower standard than if they were Jewish or Asian.

One thing I DID know before reading the article: they almost certainly weren't white males (unless they came from an uberrich family).

Seems like when it comes to education, Asians really do get the shaft... it's like affirmative action gone mad where being a minority actually makes it much more difficult for you.

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