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Sunday, April 7, 2013
College Admissions Must Read Satire
What surprised me was 56% of the people who did the poll did not get it was a Satire. I wonder how they would react to the satire a Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift that I remember reading.
Amazing lady. 4.5 GPA, Senate Page, 2120 SAT's and still rejected by the Ivy Leagues. She did get into a lot of Big 10 Schools. Her response was to write this satire, that is so true. Her comment about a fake charity is also true, a friend of my daughter's got into Princeton after founding a charity. 1227 comments so far.
To (All) the Colleges That Rejected Me - WSJ
If only I had a tiger mom or started a fake charity.
Great video of an interview with her where her comment, admissions is a crap shoot rings so true to anyone who has gone through the college admissions process.
http://www.today.com/video/today/51426965#51426965
Article with more info on her:
Entitled' high school senior sparks a firestorm of anger after she writes a scathing open letter to the Ivy League schools that rejected her - Daily Mail UK
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