GAME: True/False Unfounded Generalizations

Pre-College Topics High School Life
481

<p>False. They probably desire independent thinking.</p>

<p>Bringing gifts to interviews is considered gauche.</p>

482

<p>depends on what the gift is (racoon?)</p>

<p>Saying no to an offer of interview is akin to signing a voluntary withdrawal form.</p>

483

<p>I'd say "yes", especially if the college is heavy on "interest" as a admission criteria (Tufts and Lehigh, anybody?)</p>

<p>uhmm..ehhhmm...hmmm...
After the end of admissions reviews, all the students' files would be covered with coffee rings and crumbs and stains...testament to the long time they spent over the files...</p>

484

<p>I have been reading some of IMiracle's post and most of them are completely false. Any questions, please direct them at me</p>

485

<p>False</p>

<p>Applications are kept and filed at the end of the process</p>

486

<p>false. Everyone knows colleges could care less about their rejectees.</p>

<p>CC is more addictive than crack.</p>

487

<p>whoa this is an old old old game...</p>

<p>true.. although I havnt tried crack...</p>

<p>ED is the most nerve wrecking thing ever</p>

488

<p>i don't know what ED is....:(</p>

<p>coughing on the dean of admission's face is a sure way of rejection</p>

489

<p>false...as long as he doesn't find out your name</p>

<p>colleges will clump 750-790 SAT II scores together as equally good</p>

490

<p>probably true, maybe smaller ranges</p>

<p>best way to wait for a decision is to not think about it</p>

491

<p>false, best way is to not be physically able to think about it (induced coma, sleep, drunken stupor)</p>

<p>Secondhand smoke actually directly causes cancer...
I mean.... Stanford is a "junior university"?</p>

492

<p>False.</p>

<p>Sending pictures of yourself posing, under the guises of a portfolio of photography can make or break you if you're a bordeline case.</p>

493

<p>False. Colleges don't care if you're beautiful or not, lol. Pictures do nothing for your app.</p>

<p>But physically threatening your interviewer can get you somewhere.</p>

494

<p>true.</p>

<p>scores and grades really are more important than essays.</p>

495

<p>True-ish...</p>

<p>Some elite schools joke about randomly accepting the next 50 applicants because the caliber of their applicants are usually top-notch anyway.</p>

496

<p>false</p>

<p>Any Harvard A Cappella group has got to be the best in the nation for the SOLE reason that they're from Harvard.</p>

497

<p>false</p>

<p>HYPMS caliber schools are full of no-life people.</p>