<p>What are your thoughts? Are these high school seniors reacting too extremely, over college rejections and towards the dissenter marked in dark purple?</p>
<p>It is true that lots of people don’t get in when they really should have, though not much can be said about their school without knowing more about it.</p>
<p>I really don’t know what school they’re talking about. I go to one of the best private schools in the nation and about 25% of my grade got into Ivies and most people are pretty satisfied with their results. Perhaps they overestimate the value of their school.
But I will say this. No one DESERVES to get into these schools. That’s pretty much the definition of entitlement.</p>
<p>I just wanna tell those kids that I don’t like entitled people, and if they can’t deal with failure and disappointment in life, they’re in for a big surprise in/after college/grad school/first job…</p>
<p>Move on, and just do well. And if you fall, pick yourself up and keep going if you can. Stop whining.</p>
<p>A little venting won’t hurt any of these students so long as they eventually accept they did not get in, acknolwedge the serendipity associated with the admissions process, and come to peace with the schools that did accept them.</p>
<p>Stop blaming the system! These schools are not out to get us! They want the most intelligent, interesting, leaders they can get. If you don’t get in, you don’t deserve to get in. Are there exceptions? Yes. But they are far more rare than the student who is rejected because they are under qualified. No one deserves to get into these schools!
As for them being one of the best schools, I would doubt that ranking. I go to one of the top private schools in the country and we got ~25% of students into ivies and many others into great colleges. Maybe they’re overestimating the worth all around.</p>
<p>I would say the high school students have a right to be angry/frustrated/upset upon not being admitted. But having said that, perhaps this is the very reason why these seniors were not accepted to the top prestigious colleges they wanted. They seem to lack…just a little bit…in the very character that these colleges hope to see in their prospective students. I agree with wannabe252…no one DESERVES to go to any college. Such is the college admissions process. Such is life.</p>
<p>People–both parents and candidates–have to get it out of their heads that admission decisions are not a rendering of a verdict of the candidate’s worth or even accomplishments in or out of the classroom. They are just a very imprecise process of a group of women and men to put together the class they want-- that’s it. </p>
<p>I suppose in some countries-- Japan and China-- if you qualify by some test result you are in and so it does have some “verdict” of some measure (as bogus as that may be), but that isn’t the American system, esp for the top universities and LACs.</p>