<p>I would like to add that the only person with whom tokenadult argued – without being insulting – was not a kid, but a parent.</p>
<p>The level of bizarre paranoia about Ivy League admissions, and Harvard in particular, gets wearing sometimes. It is just silly to make all these conspiracy theory arguments. (Although, in this case, I can’t tell whether it’s silly or not, because I can’t even tell what the argument is.)</p>
<p>Last year, molliebatmit wrote about tracking results for the MIT admissions office. They did not rely on self-reporting. They relied on Facebook. I think she said there were something like 14 admittees in the class of 2010 as to whom they couldn’t determine a definitive college for which they had turned MIT down.</p>