<p>You have your eye on a school and three kids in the very top of your class decide to apply to it "just because it sounds cool" and they have $80 to throw away on an application fee and an ego boost anyways? Because you are in the top 30% of your class, the school is selective, and you are just not quite there as it is? Yeah I don't appreciate your 4.5 GPA next to mine from the same HS when you have no intentions of attending. If I weren't applying ED I would be much more irritated...</p>
<p>/endrant/</p>
<p>Okay that sounded really pretentious and rude but can we please have a discussion on screwing up the applicant pool and messing with the numbers, creating competition for less than perfect students when it comes to a school that is selective enough already if you don't even want to go?! </p>
<p>Maybe I'm just totally out of my mind, it just seems unnecessary. This might be a personal problem unique to me, but it just sucks for the kids who are really serious about doing something. Why must the college admissions process be more about boosting one's ego than actually fulfilling something tangible?</p>
<p>Anyone know any of "those" kids? Maybe it's just a suburban thing n___n. They're also the same kids who join certain clubs to get more cords for graduation. All about the image.</p>
<p>Since I’m an idiot I convinced two of my friends to apply to my dream school next year xD</p>
<p>Though when it really comes time to do so I don’t think they will actually follow through.</p>
<p>*Also your problem affected me for high school. Staten Island Tech is one of the top schools ever and you get in by taking a test. My score of 493 was literally one point below the cutoff score. In my class alone 12 kids got in and 3 of them said they knew from the beginning they never had any intentions of going. I cried all that day and stayed home from school the next day to cry. That was a Friday so I also had the weekend to cry. </p>
<p>Then I got in for a 10th grade spot with a 520 but by then I hated the school with a great passion so I declined.</p>
<p>It’s kind of rude. I guess that’s why the Ivies have such a rigorous application process. Weed out the kids who aren’t serious. But no no, NYU is common app and most of the essays they’ve written for their other schools could probably substitute with a few extra changes. </p>
<p>Plus it’s a waste of your parents’ $80. Not that they care though. It’s more than $80 with the cost of sending test scores and transcripts. Which is a whopping ONE DOLLAR at my school but hey, you still have to fill out the request form and everything.</p>
<p>Yeah, I told one of my best friends Brown is my dream school. He’s like a genius, top of the class. Then he said that he’s gonna apply to Brown too. Thank god I’m applying ED when the time comes and he’s RD. Though he may have also been joking, lol.</p>