“Go to $%%!”
“I’ll call my %$^&ing Senator”
“Who’s your boss?”
“I know Pat Ryan!”
What are: Things whiny parents say to Northwestern University admissions officials?
That is correct.
All joking aside, an attempt at humor by a Northwestern University official poking fun at things angry parents say was panned after it came to light.
A blog post on the Daily Northwestern campus newspaper reports:
The University apologized this morning for a fake internal database that mocked parents and guidance counselors of Northwestern applicants.
Screenshots of the phony classification system and email correspondence about it were posted earlier this week on admissions message board College Confidential. The images show Michael Mills, associate provost for university enrollment, sharing with more than two dozen colleagues a made-up program in which NU applicants are sorted by their parents’ and guidance counselors’ apparent gripes about admissions decisions.
The categorizations include “Go to $%%!”, “I’ll call my %$^&ing Senator,” “Who’s your boss?” and “I know Pat Ryan!” — the NU trustee (Weinberg ’59) after which Ryan Field and Welsh-Ryan Arena are named.
“It was an ill-advised attempt at humor by a member of our staff,” University spokesman Al Cubbage said in a statement. “It was an internal email that misguidedly made fun of the abrasive and threatening calls and emails our admission office occasionally gets from irate parents and counselors about our admissions decisions. Northwestern strives to treat all our admission applicants respectfully and appropriately. This was an error and we apologize for it.”
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