<p>I think job-hunting is quite possibly harder than college admissions. You have the same elements at play, except transferable skills and experience matter more and the judgment of your candidacy is even more subjective. You have to write tens of personalized letters to employers, requiring an enormous amount of time commitment with no guarantee of success at the end, or even feedback with some employers. There is more at stake. With college apps, if you have the stats, you will most likely end up somewhere. With job apps, you could end up without a job and forget about being self-sufficient in the near future. It’s a huge blow to one’s sense of self-worth to have gotten so far in life finishing college and getting no job to show for it at the end. Please tell me this is normal and that I, along with the throngs of us who will graduate with a soft science major, won’t be jobless/stuck in a minimum-wage job in the coming years.</p>