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A terrible title for a reasonably good article. It does underemphasize how much getting into a specific school is kind of a lottery even for the highly qualifi
by shardling 14y ago
A terrible title for a reasonably good article.
It does underemphasize how much getting into a specific school is kind of a lottery even for the highly qualified. I knew plenty of people who applied to pretty much every top school, and got into some small number of them -- in some cases including their first choice. My sister applied to a bunch of highly ranked schools -- many rejected her, but she made it into Yale.
The somewhat arbitrary & capricious nature of admissions is part of what feeds into this whole complex the article discusses.
- andreyf 14y agoI think it's a play on Suzy's op-ed "To (All) the Colleges That Rejected Me".
- shardling 14y agoAh, that makes more sense now.
- hkmurakami 14y agoIt was bad a decade ago when I was applying and seems to have gotten worse. At this point it's such a crapshoot that you basically have no choice but to apply to 10+ schools and pray that you luck out on one of your top choices. edit: you're right, this is a pretty good (and funny) article.