Crimson: The Final Generation of Early Action

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<p><a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=516045%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=516045&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Profiles three EA applicants for this year.</p>

<p>Of note,</p>

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“There aren’t enough hours in the day for me to tell you what is wrong with the current admissions process,” says Sally F. Rubenstine, Senior Counselor and Editor at CollegeConfidential.com. “All the anxiety that it brings our children that doesn’t need to be there!”</p>

<p>This anxiety manifests itself daily on the CollegeConfidential.com discussion forums, which claims to be the “most popular on the web.”</p>

<p>The question “What are my chances?” litters the discussions groups. They feature students who post their statistics online for others to evaluate. In one Harvard thread, a student who boasted a 2350 on the SAT I, triple 800s on the SAT IIs, and runs a “self-started computer business,” wonded whether he might get into Harvard Early Action.</p>

<p>Forget about professional counseling. Many high school students today are attempting to learn on their own what it takes to get in. The same movement that drives the multi-million dollar test-prep takes a more personal form in websites like CollegeConfidential.com. For these students, CollegeConfidential.com is not only a source for information, but a forum for therapy.</p>

<p>DIAGNOSING COLLEGE ADMISSIONS</p>

<p>Rhoda L. Wang thinks she can diagnose the disease of that online Harvard applicant. “He wanted other people to say that he was good. You hear it from you parents and friends that you’ll get in, but if you hear it from others it could make you feel better. It’s kind of stupid. But college, well, it’s stressful to each person, let them do what they need to do.”

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<p>hmm...this nehamas kid doesn't seem so great to me</p>

<p>also, Kaiser Pharmaceuticals? What's that? The official drugstore of the German Empire?</p>

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<p>mmmmm.... i quite agree that he sounds like just another white, wealthy, and well-connected jackass from the suburbs. most likely a really awkward, pompous name-dropper. i mean, i don't know him or anything, but i can just tell from his quotes. </p>

<p>what a loser.</p>

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<p>How did they pick those particular three to interview? Are they "ideal" or "average" candidates?</p>

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<p>no, nothing like that candlefungus. it's just that this nehamas character happened to be schtupping the author's best friend at the time.</p>

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<p>Please tell me which parts of the quotes attributed to him in the article led you to form that impression? Because to be totally honest, I only read one single quote, and it was about how nervous he was to submit his application. Care to enlighten me?</p>

<p>If it was only the fact that he's obviously privileged, and goes to what is clearly a school with a generally socioeconomically well-off student body, then I suggest you re-evalute the statement you just made. You're coming across as a bigoted, narrow-minded fool who automatically categorizes anyone "wealthy and well-connected" as a "loser". You have no real information to base that judgement on, but you make it anyways.</p>

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<p>Wow, that Zambrano really wants a hand out based on his race. His mom went to UCSB and makes 60K/year. He's a third generation immigrant (I didn't realize they handed out brownie points for that) and, if I had to guess, is 100% assimilated into American culture.</p>

<p>That's what counts as a sob story nowadays?</p>

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<p>I don't think anyone on this thread has actually met these students. I won't refute that you guys have some experience in meeting similarly sounding people who have been "well yeah". But there are equally amount of awesome and really nice wealthy and powerful people as well as poor people. You'll also meet snobbish people from poor backgrounds. My homecoming date, her brothers, her whole family (many times wealthier than my first generation working class family) are probably the collectively nicest people I've met. Grandpa is a Harvard MD, Dad is a surgeon, Mom has a PhD but teaches kindergarten. They're Japanese-Indian, but whites and other races are the same. Life is full of variety. Although many families turn out like minded children, there are as many individual families that turn out a mix bag of black sheep and angels. That's why never assume anything from just a family background. Please make judgements if you actually meet them. </p>

<p>Lol, let's all just hold hands and sing "All you need is love" together.</p>