<p>^#231. As romantic as you make that sounds, what is really the reality for the average applicant? What is the profile of the vast majority of all recipients of the mailings and what is the realistic chance of each individual of being accepted when they decide to follow through with the time and expense to submit the late applications? And if one uninformed kid gets in, wouldn’t he or she just replace another with similar and very deserving credential since the pool of candidates with great stats is so large and since the goal of the admission is to build a class with certain demographic profile? It is not hard to understand that the number of additional late applicants is basically the number of extra rejections that the school will get.</p>
<p>I just don’t think that it is good that students now are applying to so many more schools as the acceptance rate keep dropping. Is this kind of system of continual race to nowhere really serves any great benefit to the educational system as a whole? It seems to me that the whole process has become so cut throat and ultra competitive that the extra stuff really serves no one except the illusion of grandeur within the process itself.</p>