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The real punchline is that the Harvard dean initially believed the memo was genuine, that an associate director of admissions had written it as a parody of Harv
by bdowling 4y ago
The real punchline is that the Harvard dean initially believed the memo was genuine, that an associate director of admissions had written it as a parody of Harvard’s own practices.
- gnicholas 4y agoMy reading was that he initially thought the memo was a joke that was written by a real admissions officer (whose name was used on the document). The memo was so over-the-top (Nobel Prize!) that it would have been obvious that no such student had ever applied.