[HN Gopher] To Get into the Ivy League, "Extraordinary" Isn't Al...
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       To Get into the Ivy League, "Extraordinary" Isn't Always Enough
       These Days
        
       Author : dailybagel
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2022-04-22 21:31 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.wsj.com)
        
       | derbOac wrote:
       | Maybe higher education's success will be the source of its
       | demise.
        
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       | tatrajim wrote:
       | Who needs entrance exams these days? Just ramp up the drama on
       | one's personal essay, all is good.
        
       | MengerSponge wrote:
       | The application to elite colleges is more than just a straight
       | numbers game. Essays are intended to help admissions get to know
       | the applicant, to learn how they'd function in the college's
       | community. The idea of spending that precious time to talk about
       | why you made a pair of B's as a sophomore? Freakin yikes my dude.
       | 
       | "See, I have this history of anxiety and depression and
       | perfectionism, and I desperately need for you to understand that
       | some of my grades from when I was 14 don't define me"
       | 
       | I 100% guarantee each of those institutions admitted white non-
       | donor non-legacy students with Bs on their transcript.
       | 
       | It's also a red flag to apply to all the Ivies. They're wildly
       | different institutions, that offer different strengths,
       | weaknesses, personalities, and development opportunities. The
       | only real reason to apply to all of them is that you don't know
       | what you want out of any of them.
       | 
       | That said, my heart goes out to this poor kid. Some douche canoe
       | thought a WSJ profile of a strong student with unsuccessful
       | applications would help her or something? I'm glad to be on the
       | other side of college admissions. Elite institutions are more of
       | a crapshoot than ever, and it's inevitable that some poor
       | schmucks are going to catch a bad hop, especially if they didn't
       | diversify their application pool.
       | 
       | Also, doesn't her class rank auto-qualify for UT Austin? Her
       | fall-back is one of the best universities in the world? She
       | started an accounting club, and she got default admission into
       | the world's top-ranked accounting program? Lol. This is such a
       | non-story.
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       | Aaaaalso, because this WSJ nonsense is apparently triggering:
       | she's some math prodigy, but she doesn't understand how
       | percentiles work? "23rd out of 668, or in the third percentile,
       | she said"
        
       | silexia wrote:
       | It seems that the color of your skin is now important for college
       | entrance to elite universities than is the quality of your
       | academics.
        
         | quantified wrote:
         | The heft of your wallet hasn't lost its mojo.
        
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