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You are wrong, once you get in, one has to work very hard to flunk out. This is well known. Just google Harvard grade inflation. It is a shame, well not really, the name on the degree is more important vs gpa.[/quote]

I've heard this too, but with more subtlety and nuance. The way you write it, it comes off as a cheap and easy thing that jealous folk like to say. I'm sure that's not you, but that's the image that comes across, just so you know.

In reality, most of the kids who do get into Harvard are the super-strivers that everybody on this board loves to mock as "psychotic." Sure, once these kids get into Harvard--and they no longer have to captain 3 sports teams and run 12 clubs while they're taking 12 APs--college might look easy by comparison. Even Harvard is going to be easy compared to[b] their high school, resume-building lives.

[/b]But the development snowflake with no work ethic is going to be in for a shock. Yes, you still do have to write well there, and you have to pass the tests. That's why Harvard will only take development cases who can at least somewhat hold their own in a student body of "psychotic strivers."[/quote]

That's what sickens me - that stupid assed effort to be a save the world type who shows leadership skills just to look good to someone else.[/quote]

But students are forced to do this by the whole process. But along the way they may actually enjoy some of these clubs or learn something by performing community service. I think it is just as crazy that they need to figure out their "passion" before they go to college. That is great for kids who figure it out but isn't that what college is for or what life is for.[/quote]

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