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"And as for criticizing admissions officers for being friendly and trying to explain what they do, give me a break."
I'm sure the admissions officers are nice people. It's just that I don't
know them, and I'm not going to know them, and when if and when
my kid applies, it won't be because he wants to know them, either.
The blogs create this wierd false intimacy, kind of like reality TV. Maybe
this is a generational thing and I just can't understand because I'm
over 40.
The question has come up, why do people complain so much about MIT
admission and not about Caltech, or the Ivys. Maybe it's because the tone
of the admissions relationship is just a little bit ...inappropriate? I don't
know, but think about it, I'm an alum and I'm actually trying to be helpful.
As for complaining about graduate school admissions, people usually save
their complaining for about 3 1/2 years into the program, LOL.
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