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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow, people are so sensitive these days. This is a completely normal question to ask someone that age. Didn't you get this question from adults and other peers when you were in your senior year? Most of the time I figured the people asking didn't really care, but were just asking to be polite and show an interest in my life. Geez. [/quote]

Why do people keep going back to their own very outdated experience? Do any of you know high school students or anyone involved in this process in the past 25 years? Times have changed, keep up.[/quote]

I graduated from high school in 2013. and I fielded this question constantly. I worked at a popular tourist destination on campus of my town’s university before my senior year. Visitors would frequently ask whether I was applying to the university. I wasn’t, I was applying only to out of state SLACs. but I didn’t want to appear to denigrate the school which was essentially my employer, so I had to come up with a polite canned response. I got annoyed with the question the same way I got annoyed with questions about how I handled questions about whether I liked Sarah Palin or if I got depressed in the winter due to our extremely short days: just tired of hearing and answering the same question 10 times a day. No harm was meant and it certainly never occurred to me that it was inappropriate.

Unless you can give me a good reason why the question is sooooooo much ruder than it was 10 years ago, I’m going to assume you’re just socially awkward like most people in DC.  
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