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[quote=Anonymous]Want to see the jokesters who control your kids' futures? Note the AGE of some of these admissions counselors: 25? PLEASE!

From the Daily Beast article referenced below:

Former admissions officer at elite, small liberal arts college in the Northeast, age 25

“One year I had a student with a near-perfect SAT score and straight A’s. I’d originally put him in the submitted pile, but then we had to reduce the list. I reread his essays and frankly, they were just a little more boring than the other kids. So I cut him. Boring was the only justification that I needed and he was out.

Former admissions officer, elite, small liberal arts college in Massachusetts:

We were always looking for candidates from underrepresented groups. So if you are just a typical white girl from New Jersey and your application didn’t pass muster, it was relegated to the reject pile without a second thought. With a minority kid with the same stats, you just can’t do that. They always warrant a second or even third look.”

And my personal favorite from the same 25 year old above:

"One night, I got food poisoning at a restaurant in Buffalo. The next day, I rejected all the Buffalo applications."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2009/01/09/dirty-secrets-of-college-admissions.html

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