A Future of Failure?)

halcyonheather
Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:57:43 +0000

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Nah, they thoroughly enjoy attracting and then rejecting unqualified applicants. It raises their rankings.

First of all:

1. Why do you want to go to Harvard or Yale? Have you ever visited a college? Have you ever even heard of any other colleges (glancing over the U.S. News rankings doesn’t count)? Have you ever considered that some other college might be a better fit for you, or that Harvard and Yale might not end up having the program you want, or anything like that?

2. There is basically nothing you can do to guarantee your admission at schools like you mentioned. Several of the factors they consider are things you have absolutely no control over - race, whether you’re first-generation or not, legacy status, where you live, etc.

3. Not going to HYPSM doesn’t make you a failure, and to say that it does is insulting to every successful person who didn’t go to those schools (aka most of them).

Ways people get internships:

1. They filled out an application (typically available online) and were accepted.

2. They have connections through their relatives.

3. It wasn’t actually a prestigious internship but they inflated it on their resume.

Links to summer programs, internships, and contests you can look into:
[Opportunities & Resources | JHU CTY](http://cty.jhu.edu/imagine/resources/)