Say you had a clean slate...

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Anonymous wrote:That is exactly what I would do, for starters. Pick your five schools, and get on with it. This applying to 20 schools ridiculous.

Who benefits from this? How would this improve anything?

Schools don’t need to manage yield and will be making their decisions solely on whether they want this student. If they know they are one of five, they know you are serious.

Exactly. They know immediately that you didn’t just throw them in at the last minute, to the list of 20 other random schools you’re applying to. It would make a huge difference. Plus, admissions offices wouldn’t be inundated with thousands of meaningless applications.

Colleges don't care if you added them at the last minute if they want you.

Admissions offices are not "inundated". They want as many students to choose from as they can and they can handle it. If they didn't they would fill the entire class ED/SCEA. You are applying a solution to a thing that is not a problem, and certainly not your problem.

This would not make anything better and would make a whole lot worse for both students and the colleges. Do you think you thought of this and no one in admissions has? If this was a good idea it would be implemented already. It is a bad idea.

You are very sure of yourself, aren’t you? We’ll just have to agree to disagree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Emotional striptease," yes, that's it exactly. The UK personal statement is completely academic in nature.

But in both countries, the essay is all about 'selling' yourself to the admissions committee.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:That is exactly what I would do, for starters. Pick your five schools, and get on with it. This applying to 20 schools ridiculous.

Who benefits from this? How would this improve anything?

Schools don’t need to manage yield and will be making their decisions solely on whether they want this student. If they know they are one of five, they know you are serious.

Exactly. They know immediately that you didn’t just throw them in at the last minute, to the list of 20 other random schools you’re applying to. It would make a huge difference. Plus, admissions offices wouldn’t be inundated with thousands of meaningless applications.

Colleges don't care if you added them at the last minute if they want you.

Admissions offices are not "inundated". They want as many students to choose from as they can and they can handle it. If they didn't they would fill the entire class ED/SCEA. You are applying a solution to a thing that is not a problem, and certainly not your problem.

This would not make anything better and would make a whole lot worse for both students and the colleges. Do you think you thought of this and no one in admissions has? If this was a good idea it would be implemented already. It is a bad idea.

You are very sure of yourself, aren’t you? We’ll just have to agree to disagree.

Yes I am very, very sure of myself on this topic. And you are always entitled to your own opinion, but never to your own facts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. Get rid of test optional at every school in the country.

2. Make it truly race-blind. No box to check ethnicity, and admission reps see only a student ID number and not a name so they can't deduce your race.

This is dumb. You can tell a child’s race by their zip code.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:1. Get rid of test optional at every school in the country.

2. Make it truly race-blind. No box to check ethnicity, and admission reps see only a student ID number and not a name so they can't deduce your race.

This is dumb. You can tell a child’s race by their zip code.

No you can’t. Moved to 75039 what race am I ?