Well, it IS just Harvard. These days, with the grade inflation there, it’s enough to just get in. Once you do, you graduate cum laude.
In 2001, 90.8% of Harvard graduates finished cum laude or better. Unlike the other Ivys, just getting into Harvard is the challenge, not so much the finishing.
Well, if she arranges her classes right, she might get time for a nap around lunchtime.
If she doesn’t get kicked out, four kids from the class behind me in my high school are going to have the honor of having HER as their classmate next year. Joy! Bet they’re all looking forward to that.
I kind of hope she tries to sue Harvard. They’ve got a somewhat bigger legal budget, more invested in their reputation, and a whole slew of top lawyers working for them who’d dress her up as a birdie and play badmiton with her punk ass.
And andygirl: Cool! Annother Ivy Doper. Is The Dartmouth Review still putting Hitler quotes in their masthead?
Not quite as flagrantly, but they’re still a pack of jackbooted idiots. They tend to write articles talking about how me and my friends are the enemy and destroying the very fabric of Dartmouth. Which is, quite frankly, damn cool.
I still wanna know.
Has she had her position as sole valedictorian revoked?
That would be the icing on the cake.
Zenster
[Who’s hoping her graduation ceremony hasn’t happened already.]
FWIW, I think the second-best grade-getter is called the salutatorian and gives a shorter speech in some schools. We had both at Wellesley but they knew to get off the stage soon so everybody could hear Diane Sawyer, class of '69 (like Hillary!)
I remember the name of the salutatorian because she was a friend of mine, but damned if I can remember the valedictorian. In my schools it was no big deal.
I thought UK schools had elaborate hierarchies, with Heads of Forms and Best Boys and Lord High Paddlers and whatnot?
I’m chronically ill, does that count as disabled? Because if it does, I want to add my name to the list disabled individuals who think this girl is a whiny, dishonest bitch. She should be rejected not only by Harvard but by every insitute of higher learning on the planet. I hope she ends up cleaning bathrooms at truck stops.
I personally have my doubts as to whether this girl truly needed the special accomodations made for her (I never got exempted from gym requirements, and somehow I managed), but my sympathy for her does not increase even if she did. Either way, she’s a whiny, dishonest bitch.
sigh
Once again, I’m so proud to live in the next town from Ms. Hornstine.
“I’m not a professional journalist.” SHe didn’t know she had to cite when something wasn’t hers? Uh, why didn’t she ask? I actually know one of the editors for Static (the section of the paper she wrote for), know a few people who write for it - all very nice, very knowledgable people.
And I can’t help but feel bad for everyone else at Morristown high school. Their graduation will now be a media circus.
and it’s probably going to rain for it, too.
I DID get exempted from gym class from middle school through the second year of high school, but when we moved to California my new school insisted I be in SOME sort of PE class. So my junior year I was in an “adaptive PE” class, which didn’t amount to much in the way of PE. My senior year I took swimming, which was much better. Swimming is about the only form of exercise, aside from biking, that I’m really supposed to do. Water aerobics works well, too.
As far as I know the schools in Texas I went to didn’t credit PE classes any differently from regular classes, so it wouldn’t have made a difference for me anyway. Had I been in AP classes that WOULD have been different, but I also would have recognized that my situation was different and I would be acting like a whiny spoiled little brat if I insisted on being the ONLY one at the top. had I BEEN at the top, grade-wise. (Yeah, right, I graduated right smack in the middle of a class of about 400. My college grades went up because I WANT to be there.)
Oh man-talk about instant karma!
Of course, I do have to say, it’s pretty sick that people would issue death threats to her and vandalize her house-that’s not acting any better than Horstine has.
But honestly, this little brat has pretty much proven her lack of ethics and downright common SENSE!
I’m just so glad I don’t live next door to these cretins.
A dear friend of mine, Rajan Sonik, was both valedictorian of my high school class AND is heading to Harvard.
I ought to ask him to rip Blair a new a–.
Good for you. I wish I had around a copy of the Harvard Lampoon’s parody of the Dartmouth Review that they did a while back. You’d get a kick our of it.
Whoever wrote the headline for Newsday should learn to read more closely. From the link in the OP:
Anyway, here’s Hornstine’s actual admission. I like how she starts right off with an attributed quotation and builds her statement around it, as if to show she’s learned her lesson.
Big deal. She didn’t say where she got the quote from. 
What a horrendously turgid bit of prose that is. Mayhaps we should link it to the “how to be pretentious” thread.
I hope she is rejected from Harvard and that her Safety School ends up waitlisting her.
Gah…that was a horrible piece of writing. Does anyone get the sense that someone else wrote the first part than did the last part? It starts off all big words and elaborate (tacky) sentences, and then degrades into a list of “i didn’t knows” and “footnotes are important”…ick.
I do hope Harvard rejects her. This girl needs to have things tough for a while, if only to teach her that she can’t buy or sue her way through life.
It seems that there are several isues here.
She’s handicapped, and seems to have been brought up to make use of that. In an odd twist of irony, making use of the Pity Factor if disabled earns my ire, not my pity.
She learned to do this in her parents’ home. We need to not let them off so easily, she’s grown up in an environment of litgious arrogance. Daddy is a Judge. Lawyers get appointed Judgeships. My WAG is that during her formative years, Daddy was a fairly powerfully places Attorney. She learned that one sues first, and thinks second.
The Great State of New Jersey apparently does not demand 3 years of High School gym. Pennsylvania does ( or, did when I went in the late 1970’s ). You could skip a lotta shit and still graduate. You went to gym EVERY week and passed, or did not graduate.
She was homeschooled…yet is a registered student? You can have your cake and eat it too there? Odd. Up where I am, if you are homeschooled you aren’t a student in a school, you are formally withdrawn that year.
Notorious on the home front or not, if Harvard has a policy that requires revocation of acceptance if plagiarism is proven, then so be it. Whiner or not, Judge for Daddy or not, the school should immediately revoke her acceptance.
Sorry, but any student CAPABLE of making out a college app is capable of understanding attribution of quotes. As they say in the legal world, ’ ignorance of the law is no excuse '. I don’t hope she loses her school because of a need to be vindictive or because I wish ill upon someone who sounds pretty cagey and manipulative.
She should lose it because she broke the rules, and should pay the consequences…
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It does, actually. The two state requirements (curriculum-wise) in public schools in NJ are 4 years of English, and 4 years of PE.