[irishcoffee]

> If you have affirmative action helping people get into university with lower test scores, isn't that exactly what you'd expect to see?

Ah, and here we have uncovered the elephant in the room.

Damn elephant.

I'm sure this woman has a legitimate complaint, I'm sure at least two people have asked her if she was lost before. I'm also guessing she may be bloviating a little bit. Nobody in college gives a damn if you're lost, lets be honest. If you're lost, you ask for directions. Happens all the time. Unless, of course, you actually look lost. Even then, people usually don't give a damn.

I went to UMD, College Park, and the weed-out classes were damn hard. UMDCP is only a top 15 program, I can't imagine how hard Stanford would be.

[owen_griffiths]

The incessantly being asked if you are lost is the most unrealistic part of this story. My wife and I were looking for a room in Stanford last year - we really were lost. No-one gave a s..t.

[irishcoffee]

Yep sounds about right.

At UMDCP people asked me for directions all the time, and I was happy to help. Not once did I ever ask anyone if they were lost. Nobody gives a shit. They really, truly just don't. Anyone who "does" care actually doesn't, they're just trying to break the ice or whatever.

[codygman]

You should take it as a compliment, in (probably large) part it means you and your wife looked good enough to be Stanford material.