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It's kind of funny how people who have made it as big as Jack Ma are still obsessed enough with Harvard to mention almost as a badge of honor that they were rej
by larrys 11y ago
It's kind of funny how people who have made it as big as Jack Ma are still obsessed enough with Harvard to mention almost as a badge of honor that they were rejected from Harvard. As if to say "see Harvard was obviously wrong here". Harvard or any top school in no way can accept anywhere near all of the applicants that are qualified to attend those schools. As such there will be people that will be rejected and accepted almost arbitrarily at the whims of the admissions staff and or quotas of one type or another.
- o_____________o 11y agoIt's like calling an old girlfriend just to passive-aggressively tell her you bought a car dealership
- josefresco 11y agoNo it's like calling up the dealership you applied to (1o times!) in college, to tell them you now own a dealership.
- ChuckMcM 11y ago... that dealership.
- Exuma 11y ago10 times is a lot worse than being wrong once, however.
- ant6n 11y agoThe admissions may be random, but apaprently not independent
- Kurtz79 11y agoOn the other hand: "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Without being knowledgeable about Harvard admission process, I would expect that the same evaluation done for one application would hold, at least in part, for the following ones submitted by the same person ?
- myth_buster 11y agoCollege admissions process over an year is an introspective and gut-wrenching experience and irrespective of the outcome, it does leave a lasting experience. Now considering if he did indeed apply 10 times, that says a lot about how much it would have affected him.
- zeronone 11y agoI guess he wants to stress that having a degree from Harvard is not as important as one might think. In his case, I guess it was the hardships that took him to the heights; maybe the Harvard degree would not have been any good for him.
- noobermin 11y ago"Still obsessed" If anything, his tone implied that learning to deal with rejection and to keep trying is one of the things that made him successful.
- sidekick 11y agoLike several others have mentioned how the video contains so much more than then just headline, I get the sense that you did not watch the video before commenting. His passing mention of Harvard could hardly imply he is "still obsessed" with Harvard.