Applying to College Is Akin to Death
Posted by Cottontimer on 30 Nov 2007 | Tagged as: Schooling, What the @#!
Proof that the whole college application process has made people go completely bonkers. Here’s what 17-year-old Jessica Assaf said in the Wall Street Journal about last year’s 13.5% low acceptance rate at Brown University.
A 14% acceptance rate isn’t a good statistic. If someone said you had a 14% chance of living, that’s nowhere near being reassured.
She just compared getting into college to death!
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I went to Brown! Does that make me special?
I have no idea what the acceptance rate was way back in my day, but I’m pretty sure comparisons to death were not part of the admissions process…
Jul, You’re special no matter where you went to school.
I think comparisons to death should come AFTER starting college, not before. haa
speaking with some authority here as the darling daughter went through the college app process last year — well, if you have your heart set on Brown, or any of the other highly-selective universities, the odds are daunting.
But there are hundreds and hundreds of very good colleges and universities that
Oh,and in chatting with admissions officers, the top # of simultaneous admissions (# of schools applied to) 35. That’s just insane.
Some very good schools:
Clark: 68% acceptance in 2002
Claremont McKenna 27% in 2002
Tufts 29% in 2002
Towson 58% in 2002
and so on.
Liz, things have changed a lot since 2002–schools have gotten a lot tougher, according to a NY Times article a few weeks ago.
There are just too many kids with top stats applying to too few colleges. Supply and demand. Which is why kids feel compelled to apply to more schools, to even the odds they might get into one.
I am so glad that now that Daughter Number Two is ensconced in college, I have no more essays to read! Our holidays will be so much more enjoyable without deadlines hovering over us!
Remember … at 17, college is IT! The next logical step. That, or your life is ‘over’. Ergo, death. I applied to 1 school. I got in. 100% LIFE! Riiiight.