Quote: (04-05-2013 05:23 PM)MattC Wrote:
I may be wrong, hell I may be right, but they don't just look at your academic achievements.
Exactly. This bitch acts--like others have in
other high-profile cases--as if the only metrics for getting into college are GPA, SAT score, and a long list of extra-curriculars, as if there's a chart where, if you meet those rather easy measures, you're automatically in. What she's complaining about the admissions process becoming is actually a
distortion of the admissions process that, while popular among cynical entitled types, is not the real story.
Your essay and your letters of recommendation play important parts too, as does the school you came from (whether it has a reputation for excellence and has sent students to that elite school before). It's not far-fetched that she came off as an entitled cunt in her essay (like she did in her interview) and that one or more of her recommenders gave her a tepid or back-handed endorsement.
Those things can be the kiss of death in a very competitive admissions process.
Blaming diversity and all this other shit is basically a failure to take personal responsibility. Just like people complain that ghetto people don't take responsibility, those who
aren't ghetto need to accept they failed to distinguish themselves--despite having every privilege available.
Schools, in a lot of ways, run their admissions like sports recruitment. Ok, say you're running a track team and, at tryouts, you had two candidates for one spot:
1. Had expensive, private coaching his whole life, has perfect form, ran in a million meets growing up, and is
only a step faster that the other guy;
2. Had no coaching, has shitty form, only ran in gym class, and is
only a step slower than the other guy.
Who are you going to take? I'd take #2. Why? Because I can coach that guy, polish him up, and make him better than #1--maybe even into an elite athlete. Number one is probably not going to get much better. Now imagine #1 is a cunt who thinks he automatically belongs on the team.