NY Times high school student blogger rejected by 11 schools

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<p>Ouch! My D would crucify me if I did that. As it is, just having moved from junior to member (gulp) may unloose the Furies if she sees it …</p>

<p>I don’t think Pomona requires any defense; on the other hand it is preferable to the nasty original direction of this thread.</p>

<p>So in that vein, how about this for a new direction: aren’t all these elite colleges that superscore fakes and frauds? Blew my mind when I learned they do that. I wonder what the “true count” colleges’ (and they do exist, UW-Madison as an example) stats would look like if they too were more concerned about prestige than truth.</p>