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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Crazy way to pick a college.

The supplemental essays are usually quite short.

This is  a bad sign for how hard your kid is willing to work for  his goals.[/quote]

Kids and specifically their helicopter parents nowadays are more interested in shot gunning and shortcuts.[/quote]

A stupid system requires an appropriate response. We applied to 25 (yes, we). Got into 22 and won't release any of them until the last minute. I highly encourage everyone to do that so schools can scramble and figure out waitlist management and cry about the strong kids they would have gotten if the system was more sane and they had offered admissions to those kids in the first place.  All this TO BS and essay/EC nonsense makes people hedge their bets. What's wrong with that?

And WTF is a "why this college?" essay anyways? Anyone with half a brain can write a decent response with about 20 minutes on google/the college's website. A good college counselor probably has an existing essay he would reuse for your kid anyways.. Stupidity.[/quote]

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