This year's applicants - please listen

dufus3709
Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:06:35 +0000

Maybe this thread is too long to be effective any more, but the situation with the OP is very understandable. I’m sure that the OP understands how it happened, and I am very happy that things have worked out. Someone described the application process to the elite colleges as a cruel joke, and it is.

I remember the way that people on CC were back in June/July of last year. A large number of people believed totally in the system and that everyone who deserved to be accepted was accepted every time. There were basically dumb arguments that if you were accepted to Yale and denied at Princeton, then it was because Yale looked for a different type of applicant than Princeton. Saying that any luck was involved in being accepted would create howls of derision.

I have only been on CC since Fall of 2004. Is this whole process going to start over again in July of this year, or does some knowledge carry over into the next year? I would really like to know.