Don't Hide All Your Failures on Apps

TheGFG
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:37:22 +0000

Yeah, I noticed that the first kid he talks about hadn’t actually failed at anything yet–he just wanted the chance to. And the second kid did poorly in ONE class. I wouldn’t imagine that an adcom would view a collection of bad grades on a report card as the student “challenging” himself.

The article reminded me of the joke about how to answer the job interview question: “What do you consider to be your greatest weakness?” “I’m too much of a perfectionist.”