I don't agree with all the author's claims, but I do agree that college admissions will never be fair. Harvard took 57,435 applications and admitted 1,968. In

I don't agree with all the author's claims, but I do agree that college admissions will never be fair. Harvard took 57,435 applications and admitted 1,968. In the span of about 3 months, do you really think Harvard admissions offers can fairly and thoroughly review 57,435 applicants? I'm certain more than they can admit of these applicants have near-perfect or perfect GPAs and SAT scores, great extra-curriculars, and everything else "perfect". At the end of the day you can't expect or depend on getting into X or Y college. It's not even that important. It is important to get into a college that has a a good X program if you plan to study X, but I don't believe there are issues as plenty of under-recognized state schools have a variety of good programs.