My acceptances don't make sense!

Vericam
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:50:57 +0000

… also there is no clear-cut hierarchy of colleges. You could have easily been accepted by Princeton and regected by Brown.

There is a degree of randomness is college admissions, and all colleges are looking for slightly (or perhaps greatly) different things in candidates. Plus each college revieves a different “portrait” of you as a candidate, either through their supplement to the Common App or through a completely unique separate application.

Brown’s separate application is quite extensive and unique when compared to the meager supplement to the common app required by Princeton… it is a big leap of faith to assume that both schools were evaluating the same candidate. You may be a person, but colleges evalutate the candidate described on paper in front of them.