Chance son for a bunch of reaches [NY, valedictorian, 1520]

[jym626]

Admissions is a crapshoot for NOBODY

I posted this in response to a thread in the parents forum, but was wondering how my peers might respond to this: To suggest that those who aren’t athletes, musicians or URMs face a crapshoot is LUDICROUS!!! I’ve recently gone through the college admissions process and will be attending Stanford in the fall. I am white, upper-middle class suburban, was not recruited for athletics or music. These are my thoughts: Leaving aside special consideration for certain students whom schools recruit for non-academic talents: sports, music, prior poetry/writing, drama, race (debatable), college admissions is NOT a crapshoot, not even for Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford. Among my 20 or so good friends (whom I have met in all sorts of contexts) who will be attending Harvard, Yale, Princeton or Stanford this fall, most, if not all, got into AT LEAST two of those schools if they did not apply early to one and remain contented with just one acceptance. Additionally, of the admitted students I…

Historical thread. The admission committees and their hardworking teams could find such terms as “crapshoot” insulting. JMO. Not open for debate.