<p>risking prolonging this agonizingly long thread. Just to clarify…i wasn’t perceiving differences in colleges (though there are for sure) I was celebrating the difference…the fact that one person can read this thread and take away that it’s a completely opaque, random crapshoot (me), and another person can read this thread (Calmom)and take away that admissions is a well defined easily navigated procedure which matches up best candidates with best match schools in an efficient and transparent process.</p>