<p>Count me as special–quoted from a post on CC no less.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=500924#post500924[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=500924#post500924</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/14/technology/14harvard.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/14/technology/14harvard.html</a></p>
<p>That's awesome! I didn't know reporters could use quotes from unidentified sources like that, but I guess if it's relevant...</p>
<p>That's pretty cool.. how did you find that?</p>
<p>I agree it seems a little dogdy, but it's a very astute analogy. :)</p>
<p>maize and blue, you da bomb</p>
<p>someone post the article? i cant see it without logging in</p>
<p>M&B - You're famous!</p>
<p>I share your lack of moral outrage about the whole thing. To offer yet another analogy - what the applicants did sounds more akin to peeking at their presents before Christmas than it was to stealing their presents from a store.</p>
<p>Yeah, it's really not like they changed their decision or anything. Honestly.</p>
<p>cool. actually, that's kinda creepy.</p>
<p>Wow, there are people from the New York Times quoting CC!?!?!</p>
<p>I completely disagree that it is okay to try to circumvent the system. My husband is a university professor and is shocked by the rampant cheating and laziness in today's world. My daughter is ranked lower than she should be due to cheating at her high school- class rank likely cost her early admission as she refused to compromise her integrity during her high school career. She's not perfect, but she's an exceptional student and was barely given the time of day during an early admission interview because she wasn't valedictorian.</p>
<p>I am just as surprised, tashi! </p>
<p>Let me start saying profound things so that they'll quote me lol.</p>
<p>I agree that there is a lot of cheating today and it's extremely unfair but I don't think you can pinpoint the reason for your daughter's not getting in to rank specifically. There are lots of valedictorians who got deferred/rejected in the early round.</p>
<p>I don't pinpoint it to her resume, I was commenting on the amount of time devoted to her interview- minimal. Believe me, I am the firsr person to knock anyone off their high pedestal. She met her alumni interviewer for 10 minutes prior to his racquetball game on a Sunday morning at a Country Club- he was dressed in shorts and obviously had court time scheduled. Pretty obnoxious.</p>
<p>That is obnoxious, but then again, I'm a bit lost now...
are you saying that she didn't get attention in her interview because of her rank? Because I don't think interviewers know that, and it's just bad luck that she got a bad interviewer. Again, if that was your point, valedictorians have gotten bad interivewers too...</p>
<p>Interviewers don't have access to anything but the applicant's phone/email.</p>
<p>They're also used minimally 99% of the time.</p>
<p>Sounds to me like your daughter just got stuck with a jerk. :(</p>
<p>I should clarify that I am not referring to a Brown interview.</p>
<p>Well it would be different for the school, but in most cases, alumni interviewers don't know about rank. </p>
<p>Good luck to your daughter in the RD round!</p>
<p>My original commentary was in regard to the ethics point (or LACK of ethics) of the thread- my point was that she is an honest, great kid. Too bad they can't test for that. If the next generation is paying attention to the business news (see Worldcom), it would be in your best interest to live your life in a clean fashion.</p>
<p>You never know who's reading at CC. :) Congrats, M&B.</p>
<p>We've had quite a bit of media interest over time, though most of the writers seem to be lurkers rather than posters.</p>