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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This behavior costs admissions people time and energy and for every school that accepted her, some student was rejected--maybe an URM who really wanted to go there.[/quote]

That's not how this works.  For elite schools, you have no idea whether you will get in, barring multi-million dollar donations.  For the very good schools with competitive admissions proccesses, the waitlists are large and at most she bumped a person from the waitlist that was never getting in.  But for the vast majority of the schools that she was likely admitted to, there was little to no admissions process.  She is a URM and a first-gen college student.  She has 5 siblings, including one with serious health concerns.  She plans to be a teacher.  A full-ride (or very close) is probably more important to her than many of the things she would find out on a tour.  And you only know that after you apply.  Look at the schools that she was reported as considering:

Louisiana State University, Valparaiso University, University of North Texas, Fisk University, Randolph University, Brandeis University, and Mississippi State University.

These are fine schools, but only one of them is ranked within the top 100.  And these are presumably the "best" options according to this student's assessment.  So, pressumably a good chunk of the other places that she applied were local universities that admit basically anyone that meets some fairly low minmum.

Though I do love all the outrage about how a poor, black girl from the South is just abusing the system. 
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