| PG:
How can we ever know how the young woman in Chicago --- who virtually swept the field in acceptances to the several Ivy League colleges she applied to --- would have felt had she not been admitted to any of them?
Perhaps she would have been perfectly happy with one of her nonIvy choices, but honestly given where she applied, it isn't farfetched to imagine that she had her own dreams of attending an Ivy and that she too might have felt, as Ghosh did, deeply disappointed not to be admitted to her favorite one. I'm sure she would have been sensible and intelligent enough to get over it and be pleased with a nonIvy admittance, but I also think that young Ghosh will recoup and be happy to attend one of the fine universities that admitted him. Won't be a news story at that point, though.
Disappointment, even being temporarily devastated, over not getting the admission one had hoped for is pretty understandable to me. I didn't think their reaction was obnoxious, just a bit overblown considering the Duke-Rice-Caltech acceptances. |