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ZOMGZ!!! NO WAI!?! She’s unpopular? I thought that popularity was a requisite to get into Harvard and Yale!!
:rolleyes:</p>
<p>So presumably both the OP and the classmate go to school in Mexico? So maybe they should BOTH get a “break”?</p>
<p>Whaaaaaaaa??! Did someone say hahvahd???where!!!</p>
<p>Omg her MOMMY got her into harvard? I feel so sorry for u lLOLolOLOLLLLL</p>
<p>st fu and realize that life isn’t fair. grow up n00b</p>
<p>I hate to break it to the OP, but Harvard is certainly not the best college in the world. In fact, I’m turning down a near-full scholarship to Harvard to go to MIT instead…</p>
<p>Why don’t you have a MOMMY like that?</p>
<p>To whoever said something along the lines of “he will never see failure because he is amazing all the time w/o trying”. If he doesn’t fail why does he need to be judged? Society is only financially egalitarian… Some are better than others…</p>
<p>…sigh…life is unfair. URMs, recruited athletes, they all get a boost. I would say to OP though that you have no idea what another’s application <em>might</em> have unless you actually know/talk to the other person. Like, one classmate and I look very similar on paper-same classes, similar grades (within 1 pt of each other on tests), leaders of 3 clubs. yet, she wrote her essays the week before, during class, on a made up story about dogs (I kid you not). I basically spent 2 months editing and preparing my commonapp essays. also, i won national awards, had way higher SAT IIs (differences of 150+ points on two), had a job, and other things most people in my school wouldn’t know about. also, i went on many, many tours to each college and had good reasons for picking each place. She didn’t even visit a school an hour away from us! I know she looks at me and is like, “huh, how did she get in and I got waitlisted?!?!” but Idk, don’t judge people on what you don’t know.</p>
<p>You need to get a life.</p>
<p>you don’t even know her… maybe she did extraordinary things outside of school, shut up.</p>
<p>lol, honestly :)</p>
<p>and to whoever said : ‘It bugs me that foreigners and illegals come and take up spots in our top colleges… you don’t see me crying on this message board about that.’ </p>
<p>–> Obviously, you are crying on this message board about that, or else you wouldn’t have said anything. And honestly, just because someone is from another country, does it mean that their dreams and hopes are any different? If you work hard for what you want, then you deserve as much of a chance as others, no matter where you were born.</p>
<p>To the OP: Perhaps she got in because she doesn’t whine when things go wrong or when something seems ‘unfair’. ;-)</p>
<p>what do you think of that??</p>
<p>I think you are pathetic for wasting your time *****ing about this. Get a life.
Life isnt about college…go ride a bike or something rather than complaining about how unfair this crap is. you are wasting your life…and life is short…so you might want to start spending your time enjoying it rather than complaining about all the unfairness in the world.</p>
<p>Haha if you think that’s unfair a few years back some kid from my school got into harvard and he didn’t have to pay a single dime because his father was a janitor there. ***?!</p>
<p>^^^^ I have two friends who go to Harvard. One pays $1,500 a year because of financial need. The other pays nearly full price, despite the fact that her parents are currently paying to put to kids through Harvard. Does the former complain about the latter? No. Even if this person’s father were a janitor somewhere else, the kid would still be paying practically nothing because generally, janitors don’t make much. It’s not unfair, it’s the only way low-income parents can pay? What do you want? A world where only those who can afford the exorbitant prices colleges charge get in?</p>