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Why all the judgement? It's such a BURDEN to fill out a good application complete with supplemental essays! More power to all these kids who are doing a ton more work!

My senior took an enormous amount of time to write thoughtful essays and burned out after the 6th application. 
I wish he could have done more, but I saw his effort, and didn't say a word.

Unless you've ever filled out 30 applications for college, I really don't think you're in a position to criticize! It's not hitting a button 30 times, people.

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Sure we can criticize. Because it is one of the reasons apps are up 10 percent every year.[/quote]

Except you're criticizing the victims, instead of criticizing the perpetrators! The perpetrators are the colleges who built and encouraged this system. The victims are the students, who are either shut out because they didn't apply to many schools, or have to do a ton more work by applying to a lot more schools.

I really dislike how easy it is for some people to default to victim-blaming, whether it's for college admissions or any other situation (ex: "you were in a mini skirt - no wonder someone took an upskirt photo!"). It's like you guys just ignore millenia of evolution, bypass your prefrontal cortex entirely and stick to the lizard brain ;-)

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+1 - second paragraph goes off the rails put first paragraph is spot on.  Blame these hedge funds that circumscribe supply and educate as a sidenote.[/quote]

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