<p>Suppose there was a Golden Ticket that would guarantee you admission to exactly one school. Would you use it? Which school?</p>
<p>It might bother you for the rest of your life that you might have been accepted only because of your Golden Ticket and were otherwise unqualified (and yet you will never know if you would have been accepted without the ticket). Perhaps you would feel guilty to have taken a spot from an anonymous person somewhere who was more qualified but rejected because you used your ticket.</p>
<p>What if you started your freshman year and realized that you were over your head academically. Or the campus culture simply made you miserable.</p>
<p>My guess is that admissions has become so cutthroat that most respondents would unhesitatingly use their ticket. I am curious about the perspective of others.</p>
<p>I’m going to be a freshman at Vanderbilt this fall, and I’d probably use the ticket on Duke, just because it was my other top choice along with Vandy.</p>
<p>But regardless, I would so be one of those people that would use the ticket with no guilt cuz I know that once I get in, I will find a way to fix whatever problems I run into and I can finally get my family to be proud of me (sad I know but thats just how it is)</p>
<p>But at the end of the day, everything happens for a reason so what may be someone’s bad luck may work out for them at the end.</p>
<p>Yeah, I’d use it for WUSTL probably. I wouldn’t feel guilty if I knew my scores, etc. were up there, and it would have just been a chance thing or based on how certain people felt about certain ECs, or whatever. There are many many qualified applicants.</p>
<p>A lot of academically qualified people don’t get into the top schools. I’m sure most of harvard’s applicants can handle the course load. i’d use the golden ticket, no qualms at all about graduating</p>
<p>I’d go to Berkeley. I’d have to work hard and show that I earned my spot there. I’ll be applying there for graduate and law school when the time comes. I hope I get in. God knows I’m going to put 110% into these next two to possibly three years.</p>
<p>“Perhaps you would feel guilty to have taken a spot from an anonymous person somewhere who was more qualified but rejected because you used your ticket.”</p>
<p>Really? Being more qualified than someone else, but not being admitted happens all the time. It’s a flaw in the “holistic approach” that colleges use. Namely affirmative action.</p>
<p>Oxford University 100% easy choice. I’d never regret it and would put forth as much effort as I could and more into the work. Is there any place better?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t swap my current diploma for any other school because of all the fond feelings I have for my alma meter but back in high school, my first choice was Yale.</p>