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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you don’t think it’s random to some extent you’re naive.

When there are well more qualified applicants than spots, there is a significant element of randomness.

I say this as someone who has been admitted to multiple programs with less than 10% acceptance rates. I’m not so arrogant as to say I wasn’t the beneficiary of a random choice between another qualified applicant and myself.[/quote]

Nothing that has such a detailed selection process is random.  At all.  They are antithetical.

I understand they may [i]appear [/i]to be random to you.  But they are not.  People read, select, and teams debate, and vote.  That's the opposite of random.

Element of randomness in elite college admission is exactly 0%.  [/quote]

You’re just wrong. There are multiple times per admissions cycle where admissions officers [b][u]have to pick[/u] [/b]between two almost identical applicants. That’s where the randomness comes in.

Trust me — I know enough about admissions to be right about this. [/quote]

Sigh... no, you don't.

If they are picking... it isn't random.  Get it?

They like one better then the other, no matter how nominal.

No elite school has so many applicants that they have to fill a seat with someone they choose at random.  There is always some difference.  A skill or talent, a hobby, a geography, a relationship with a certain HS, even, yes, a few points higher on a test score, although I think that one is way down the list of points.[/quote]

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