<p>Most schools are well aware that RD applicants must - of necessity - apply to a range of schools.</p>
<p>well, now that "Kathy" has been admitted to Yale, I wonder if she's going to complain so quickly.</p>
<p>Maybe she's just a touch paranoid (?)</p>
<p>Anyways, the only part of the application process which I dislike is the weight which is given to reccomendations [because one teacher's writing can sabotage or elevate your four years of work].</p>
<p>Here Kathy, let us look at this one. You have 800math and 780verbal and 750writing. Your score tells of nothing at all. SAT's, let us not forget, are designed to test your discipline to sit down for a while, and take a test. It tests only that, so you may be the perfect score, but I am sure you came from a well-to-do area of the country. That means that you have to held to a higher standard of expectations, because - let us not forget - to whom much is given, muchis expected. Your extra curriculars, for me alone, look like you crammed them into your scedule. It is "how dedicated" not "how long" is the list of ECs.
Now let us look at someone from a disadvantaged school. Let us take a truly average score: 510v; 510math; 510 writing. This should be thrown out right. No, let us look at the person closer. WOW! Three sports, three years of community service, lots of honors and prizes, does some work, and still makes honor roll. Now, if that sorry soul were to be sent to your well-to-do school, what shows that her SAT's will not rise? What shows that she might not take one more sport, and do some other more interesting EC that was not available in her area of residence? Why these scores? Let us look at the essay.
!! WOW !! THis student sure is disadvantaged. We shuold help her!
You see, nobody wins at this game. No one factor is put into making such a decision. Person two has survived some ghettos and you are crusing in a top notch school. Why shouldn't they weigh you and think twice? What shows that you will not want to drop out and have no social life because of the workload, while person 2 has proven herself? That is where you are waitlisted of denied. That is JUST a little part of the admissions process. Think twice, because these people have done their job for a while now. Hope you make it because they care less about you; you are just one of many people who look alike on paper, and they may profit from someone and not from you. Who cares? You are a good person, but one little factor may tip the scale in someones favor; she has one leg; she is a single mother; she works EVERYDAY; she has searched for other things to do to supplement what she learns in school. That is just a little part of what we see as a denied application or an accepted letter.</p>
<p>^ That's a terrible example. First of all, your post was so structurally and grammatically unsound that I had to wade through it like a quagmire.</p>
<p>Secondly, I can personally guarantee that there is not a single Yale student with a 1500/2400 score. Not one. </p>
<p>Maaaayyyyyyyybbbbbbeeeee a 1750 if they're a URM, RA kid straight out of October Sky.</p>
<p>Single moms with one leg that work 10 hour shifts 7 days a week can certainly get into Yale...........if they're academically qualified.
Yale is not in the business of charity. They're in the business of educating brilliant kids.</p>
<p>Period.</p>
<p>marina_b's post is probably the smartest one yet. </p>
<p>Haha. That's all I'm going to say.</p>
<p>Please note this is a thread from 2006.</p>
<p>I wonder if Kathy Henderson eventually was admitted...</p>
<p>Jeffrey Brenzel is being hired as Dean of Admissions...? OMG???!!!??? </p>
<p>But he signed my admit letter... was mine a fake!!!???</p>
<p>Just kidding... who dug this thread out of the gutter? It was buried deeper than ExxonMobil's secret stash of oil reserves...</p>