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To All the Colleges That Rejected Me
- brevityness 14y agoSide note: is the only way to bypass the wsj paywell via a google search?
- Nate75Sanders 14y agohttp://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424127887324000704578390340064578654.html&rlz=1C1LENN_enUS512US512&aq=f&oq=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424127887324000704578390340064578654.html&aqs=chrome.0.57j58.1218&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...
- anotherlink 14y agohttp://www.jottit.com/4zeu4/ http://www.jottit.com/4zeu4/
- dvt 14y ago... says the high school senior being published in The Wall Street Journal. Can't tell if irony.
- wfunction 14y agoIf I could downvote for posting a link to a site that asks us to pay, I would. Don't have the karma unfortunately.
- cma 14y agoflag it
- davidroberts 14y agoSorry, I posted this. I Googled into it and didn't realize it was behind a paywall. And I can't delete it. When you do get the karma to downvote, you'll discover that it doesn't work on links, only on comments.
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- accountoftheday 14y agoThe fake achievement racket is reason enough for my future children to grow up in Europe.
- jptoor 14y agoIt's not that common. I don't know what's she's talking about. There's exaggerations, but very little "charity fraud."
- hanleybrand 14y agoHopefully there's a twist in the article, but I'm not going to be able to find out. I'm going to point out that any good university has a wide range of factors they consider for accepting applicants - there's no reason you should be able to expect that just because you hit the standard high marks (all a's, high sats, college prep -- yawn, step into line with the other 30,000 of those please, we have 200 spots). And frankly, if the author is blaming external factors like they didn't have better parents and/or were not willing to commit fraud to get accepted, there may be another factor the author is blind to, but that others can see. Just saying.
- jptoor 14y agoThis is awful. I don't know how it was published in the WSJ. I can't tell if it's satire or not... I'm actually angry at her entitlement here.