So, to recap:

* Having technical problems =/= being banned.

* Having a thread deleted =/= having a thread deleted by GTO.

Got it?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5754215)

It's sort of like how anyone who points out someone has been rude could be seen as being rude in pointing that out. :O

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5754487)

Author: anongradstudent (That's how I roll.)

<3 <3 <3 :-* :-* :-*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5755594)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5755905)

Urge him to meet us in MA sometime this summer. That would be more "sobering" perhaps. :)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5760202)

also, youre the best!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5755605)

hth.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5757046)

It was deleted after Fan disparaged the author of the article posted.

In fact, I was having a very pleasant exchange with JAV, before it was deleted.

Here is the attack on me and Jay Mathews by Fan. I was deleted and Fan was left on. Then the whole thread was deleted

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Date: May 8th, 2006 9:39 PM

Author: Hugh2

Isn't jay Matthews the same guy who writes about all the great colleges that are not well known, perfect for someone else's kid but he went to H and sent his own kid to Pomona. I'm always suspicious of his writings.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=412933&forum_id=1#5745335)

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Date: May 8th, 2006 9:53 PM

Author: NYCFan

He transferred to Harvard himself from Occidental; his wife went to Harvard; his son went to Harvard. He used to be an alumni interviewer. Then his daughter couldn't hack it and wound up at Pomona. Ever since, its been "Harvard-Shmarvard"!!!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=412933&forum_id=1#5745449)

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Date: May 8th, 2006 9:57 PM

Author: hero

You got it wrong.

His daughter, Katie, never applied to Harvard and his book was written before she had applied to college, contrary to your beliefs. In other words, she SNUBBED Harvard, not the other way around. Katie was a double legacy, with a sibling who was also an alum.

Mathews, himself, transferred to Harvard College to study East Asian Studies and even had lived and worked in China for a period of time. His son is a journalist, as well as his wife.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=412933&forum_id=1#5745484)

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Date: May 8th, 2006 10:18 PM

Author: NYCFan

Subject: Not true.

But then you've been carrying the water for this fraud ever since he put your name in the paper.

From a Mathews column:

"Many relatives and friends had said they were glad that I could no longer make such shameless use of her personal life, culminating in my milking every Katie Mathews story I had for my college admissions guide, "Harvard Schmarvard."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=412933&forum_id=1#5745606)

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Date: May 8th, 2006 10:20 PM

Author: hero

So?

Speak to him. I did. He never said that she had even applied to or was rejected by Harvard.

Contrary to your beliefs, not everyone applies to Harvard, or even DESIRES to, including legacies, even double legacies.

Katie applied to Pomona College ED in Nov. 2002, her FIRST CHOICE EARLY DECISION.

Please click on:

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NTQ/is_2003_June_17/ai_103518482/pg_4

The College Admissions Game; Fear, Uncertainty Plague Students and Parents

Washingtonpost.com, June 17, 2003 by Jay Mathews

[I am less forgiving of my son Joe, who drove Katie to and from the Long Beach airport for her overnight stay at Pomona just before she submitted her application in November. In the car, he suggested she might think twice before ruling out Harvard. He told her he thought the students who are drawn to Harvard, largely because it is Harvard, are more interesting than at any other place.

I was aghast to hear this bit of folklore being uttered by an otherwise astute young journalist who had often told me how badly managed he thought our alma mater was and how he planned never to give it any money or send any of his children there. I thought of sending him a copy of my book manuscript, highlighting all the passages that showed that the special character of the Harvard student body and the life-changing Harvard ethos were myths. But Katie had already shrugged it off, as little sisters often do, so I calmed down and waited nervously for that envelope from Pomona.]

You have been PROVEN WRONG AGAIN!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=412933&forum_id=1#5745621)

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Date: May 8th, 2006 11:12 PM

Author: hero

>> But then you've been carrying the water for this fraud ever since he put your name in the paper. <<

I don't "carry water" for anyone, not even you!

NYCFan pwned!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=412933&forum_id=1#5745970)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5756133)

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Date: May 7th, 2006 10:02 AM

Author: hero

Subject: The "A-problem" replaced the "J-problem" at Harvard

Pensive said, [Let me call bullshit on this one. The extracurricular/"character" component of admissions has ALWAYS been centered on the upper-middle-class northeastern WASP, and probably will be for the forseeable future. It was built into the process to "protect" these colleges from the "J-problem" (and in the XXI. century, the "A-problem"). Is this racist and unfair? Absolutely, but it's what the "holistic" component of admissions at these schools was historically designed to do, and what it still does. Sure, some lower-income black and Hispanic students will be admitted, but HYP are already quite happy with the proportions they have. A cynic would say that the "disadvantaged" students are brought in solely as "diversity training" for the upper-middle class WASPs who are the HYP clientele, but I digress. Anyway, racial diversity aside, Harvard is certainly in no rush to bring in more diversity in terms of lower-middle class Red Staters who painted houses during their summers instead of founding nonprofits or, for that matter, Bay Area Asians with high IQs, who are currently rejected as "not well-rounded" out of the fear that too many of them would make spoiled white résumé kids feel dumb and not enjoy their expensive Ivy experiences.]

I agree with your assessment totally on this one. The "J-problem" or Jewish problem at Harvard and the Ivies is replaced by the "A-problem" or Asian American problem today. Now there is a de facto quota against Asian American students. There is no Jewish quota today anymore. You are very perceptive and honest with your assessment. Not many posters here would acknowledge this fact.

Your assessment is also politically incorrect, but it is straight to the point and the truth.

You also asked,"Is this racist and unfair?". You answered, "Absolutely". I agree.

Of course this is racist and unfair to Asian American applicants to the Ivies and Harvard as this was unfair and racist against Jews in the past, but how many of these posters are going to admit this?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5756388)

Being that NYCFan has never cared for my attendence here and the posts that have been deleted are ones at least some feel he would care to delete, it does make me wonder if he is the one doing the deleting. And if he is, I am curious as to whether he hacked to do it or was given the procedure on how to delete posts by one of the "out in the open" mods.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5756614)

My posts are quite benign, and they are civil. If you read them, it is Fan who chimed in and interrupted me ruely on my thread, which was ultimately deleted.

Methinks the same also.

I agree with you.

The deletions have stopped for the time being. I wait and see what happens later.

NYCFan is nowhere to be heard from yet. 10:56 am is usually beyond the time of his entrance to xoxo. He is not here yet. Is this a coincidence?

LOL! because your son also SNUBBED Harvard. NYCFan would not like this also.

Also "hacking" into this system is illegal and a crime, punishable by law.

BTW, Fan never admits that he is wrong about anything, and that will be his downfall.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5756718)

My son is my *only* offspring (had I another child, I seriously doubt the child would have been another people would have described as "great" as having our son be who he is was just incredible good luck, and this is why I didn't bother to have another child as that kid would live in the first's shadow) and 14 and still will be when he starts at MIT in June (sob). As someone wrote me, this is the downside of letting kids accelerate academically - you could lose their company as a household member years earlier than you expected. Well, the downside for the parents. The upside for the offspring is getting to be financially independent years earlier (as our son could have been at age 13 if he wanted to be nasty and charge a 13-year-old rent just because he made more some days than his father even putting in less hours, and he plans to be starting June, but we'll see as the stipend is not what he's been used to making) and perhaps experiment with different start-ups before having to support a family (if he ever does have a family, as he's still unsure on if he will).

Ha, maybe that's why NYCFan has never liked me. He knows I gave birth to a child who only spoke of attending Harvard once when he was 4 and never again (or if not that fact, that my son set his sights on MIT since the week he turned 8 and never applied to Harvard). Actually, he hates the length of my posts and the content overall, but you know, you can't please all people. Even God (if there is one) doesn't do that. Far be it from me to try to be better than God.

Has NYCFan really never admitted he was wrong? I hadn't noticed and will try to be on the look out here.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5756855)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5756920)

But how obsessed with a school does one have to be to not admit being incorrect over something like that?!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5757270)

My posts or threads may be deleted, but I still have them in my computer.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5757073)

He is nowhere to be heard from. There are also no deletions so far.

Coincidence?

He is posting on the CC as Byerly today, but not on the xoxo at 9:24 am.

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=188157

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5757178)

Do you post on CC?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5757418)

No one objects to his passionate advocacy for his "cause", but his disruptive style has proven problematic over time.

Byerly* etc etc has not, to my knowledge, posted here or at any other site (including PR, where he styles himself "NYFan") since March 26.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5757481)

I usually post on the existence of the anti-Asian quota, but rarely on other topics, except for posts on elite preps and public magnet schools on which I have personal experience and have done research for more than 15 years. I usually post on racial preferences in admissions to elite colleges and not much else, which NYCFan rarely comments on or for that matter, the character Bostonian/Byerly*/ Holland's Tulip/etc.. rarely comments on. I did take issue with Fan on some of his assertions on Harvard, which I also am acquainted with through family, former roommates, and other associates.

I am not "anti-Harvard" per se, as you can see from my posts. I never applied to Harvard as an undergrad, but I am a product of the Ivies several decades ago.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5757529)

How is Columbia today? Grad ceremonies are to be held next Weds.

I know some of the graduates from several schools at Columbia today.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5757614)

The campus is the most beautiful and well planned urban campus in America designed by McKim, Mead, White, the nation's foremost architects of the time.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5757659)

Harvard's campus can't match it, even though some in my immediate faimily did attend Harvard College and Harvard Med. I have cousins who snubbed Harvard College and attended Columbia and Yale, but ultimately they went to Harvard for med school in the 19760s and 1970s.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5757697)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5757733)

BTW, I have always posted under the name hero.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5757760)

As you know, he was a Chinese specialist who translated original writings into a book, called the "Sources in Chinese Tradition" and helped build the East Asian Dept. at Columbia. His peers included Fairbanks, another Chinese specialist, at Harvard. De Bary's book has been used in many schools for decades.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5759529)

You got your money's worth.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5759573)

Scroll down the faculty bios, and you'll come across deBary.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5759578)

Do you read or write Chinese?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5759614)

Did you even have the opportunity to study the Chinese language in your hometown before college, though you started in college?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5760556)

How about studying for a PhD program in the field. Why didn't you continue?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5760674)

To be honest, languages aren't my strong suit (Chinese has been a struggle), and academia isn't a field I'm likely to enter, anyway. If I do a PhD, it's going to be in political communication (Penn, NU, Syracuse, Stanford have top programs, among others), because I want to go into political consulting with a foreign policy focus. I've also toyed with the idea of perhaps applying to the Wilson School, KSG, and the like instead of going the PhD route, but making that decision is what these next couple of years are going to be about.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5760711)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5759646)

It makes sense. GTO is busy and mostly reads the law board.

GTO says rachmiel is very busy, but we don't know if he lurks on the college side. It's possible that GTO would delete some of the posts if NYCFan asked him to do so. It wouldn't be possible for him to delete the posts during all the times they've been deleted. Boondocks wouldn't delete the types of posts that have been deleted most recently.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5758150)

(2) Who is authorized to interpret and enfoce this policy?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5758727)

There was a conflict at the law side when Madame Cunt decided to out a couple posters who she met IRL because she was angry at them.

2. Rachmiel, GTO and Boondocks. There is now speculation NYCFan has input on the college side.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5759036)

http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=413716&mc=15&forum_id=1

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=414107&forum_id=1#5762986)