Rejection and college students

goldbug
Sun, 18 May 2025 04:21:09 +0000

To the original topic of rejective social and extracurricular experiences w/in elite universities, our student tour guide at Case Western Reserve seemed to have homed in on that anxiety and was marketing the school as a kinder, gentler alternative. I suppose this could have actually been a strategic directive from the admissions office (I wouldn’t have been surprised, given the general quality of their communications during the info session) but regardless, we ate it up with a spoon. “My high school friends studying at Cornell and U Mich can’t get into the fun engineering extracurriculars unless they’ve already had significant experience in high school, whereas here, my friend who was planning to study art history joined the baja racing team on a whim and ended up switching to mechanical engineering.”