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Reply to "Anyone else thinks the whole college admission process is a total farse?"
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[quote=Anonymous]It's terrible for a host of reasons, not least of which is the one you mention, which is that colleges explicitly tell students applications are being "reviewed" "holistically," as if the school is searching for that je ne sais quoi or some kind of ineffable "leadership" quality that can be teased out from subtle differences among applications, when the reality is the "review" is often a cursory glance at most. You can tell your student the reality of the process until you are blue in the face, but in light of the representations made by colleges about the process, rejected applicants invariably feel as if they have been weighed in the balance and found wanting. I mean, who are you going to believe, your dumb parents or Harvard. [/quote]
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