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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seems weird to me he’s questioning how college admissions work.  My school college counselor told us this 20 years ago.

1. School has minimum stats — don’t meet them, you’re rejected
2. Essays are read by overworked readers — you have a boring essay or catch your reader on a bad day, you’re rejected
3. Holistic admissions/sports/random other stuff that makes one kid more attractive to the school than another — all sorts of weird stuff comes into play here, including if the school thinks you’re unlikely to attend they might reject you for that

[b]My guess is most of the schools felt he wouldn’t attend/wouldn’t finish.  A lot of top schools don’t want students with divided attention which means the objectively excellent job offer from Google would count against him.[/b]  He sounds like he has both solid college options and a solid job lined up — why are we supposed to feel sorry for him?[/quote]
This explains why a kid I know who had been already working in a CS job when he applied to college got rejected from T15s.[/quote]
to add.. it's a shame that these supposedly great colleges are more interested in keeping their dropout rate low than helping to educate a brilliant person.[/quote]

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