[Mick]

From the limited information I've read about this, I'm a bit troubled.

Relying on admissions officers to police the taste of memes shared by 17 and 18 year olds seems pretty fraught. I remember our academic team, which sent students to Stanford, MIT, the Naval Academy, amongst others, telling dead baby jokes which were pretty morbid and probably not that funny. Thank god some old person in an office wasn't listening and making decisions about our applications.

Well, it's a politically correct world, and our children get to live in it.

I honestly don't think I said or did anything prior to college that would have rescinded my acceptance.  After I got there?  Oh yes, I can think of three situations off the top of my head in which I could have been booted, including twice where I did actually end up before a Dean.  Happily, one Dean had a sense of humor and the other recognized another student for inaccurate assessment of a situation (his comment to my opponent: "Why are you wasting my time with this?").

Still, it's a white knuckle ride, because you never know what's going to put a stake in your heart.  My last child is a senior next year.  Just crossing my fingers.

[Mick]

From the limited information I've read about this, I'm a bit troubled.

Relying on admissions officers to police the taste of memes shared by 17 and 18 year olds seems pretty fraught. I remember our academic team, which sent students to Stanford, MIT, the Naval Academy, amongst others, telling dead baby jokes which were pretty morbid and probably not that funny. Thank god some old person in an office wasn't listening and making decisions about our applications.

Well, it's a politically correct world, and our children get to live in it.

I honestly don't think I said or did anything prior to college that would have rescinded my acceptance.  After I got there?  Oh yes, I can think of three situations off the top of my head in which I could have been booted, including twice where I did actually end up before a Dean.  Happily, one Dean had a sense of humor and the other recognized another student for inaccurate assessment of a situation (his comment to my opponent: "Why are you wasting my time with this?").

Still, it's a white knuckle ride, because you never know what's going to put a stake in your heart.  My last child is a senior next year.  Just crossing my fingers.