cu-curu-gol:

soulsoaker:

woman-respecter:

soulsoaker:

it’s really not. like this is definitely a good use of your high school years but it’s not going to endear you to the AOs I promise

a lot of (high tier) colleges are already saying that it will not negatively affect your chances of getting in if you get suspended for peaceful protesting. so like just get suspended and take the days off from school reprocussion free.

these are the same colleges who systematically discriminate against mentally ill applicants/students, use an admissions system whose only real purpose was always just perpetrating racism/antisemitism, and profit IMMENSELY from the mass hysteria they create in high school students. this is no more genuine or meaningful than mcdonalds turning the M upside down for women’s day

speaking as a college activist, they’re fucking lying. if you admit openly that you participated in a protest that disrupted your school’s ability to function smoothly, then you will not get in. they do not want people on their campuses that know how to organize civil dissent. my entire organizing crew has at some point been tailed by the university cops specifically because of our activism and they’ve tried to arrest some of us on bullshit charges during our occupation of the administration building. every single university administration is involved in shady real estate deals and corporate sponsorships so all you’ll be doing by writing an essay about being suspended for protesting is making sure you don’t get in fucking anywhere (and if you do get into one of those bullshit liberal arts schools like oberlin or bard or something you’ll be paying through your ass since state schools DEF don’t want you).