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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually, it does. The process has gotten so ridiculous. "Over-qualified" kids get rejected from schools solely so they can manage their yields. This is not OK. [b]If a kid applies, assume they want to go there.[/b] At least waitlist them so they can plead their case if they really are interested.

The process has gotten so over-complicated. Schools should be devoting their financial resources towards education, not paying yield management experts.[/quote]

Except OP explicitly said that the kid did not want to go there![/quote]

So why did he apply? I think there should be a happy medium between "demonstrated interest" and "must visit, click on a lot of e-mails, and constantly suck up to show you love them."

It has become too easy to just apply to dozens of places. But there should also be more predictability to it - if the process was more predictable, students would feel less of a need to apply to many places. It is a bit of chicken and the egg.

I hate the stories about the underprivileged kid who got into 43 schools and got huge scholarships from all of them. Why were they applying to 43 schools? If you are so underprivileged, spend some of the time you spent applying and get a job (I know the additional work to apply to an additional school is often minimal, but you get my point). These kids aren't heroes.[/quote]

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