<p>What an awful waste. These young women had it made, and now all that hard work is down the drain. </p>
<p>I can’t help thinking about the applicants in their high school year who didn’t get the opportunity to go to Harvard. Maybe I make too much of it, but as someone who was rejected twice, I was acutely aware that my getting a seat in the transfer class meant 19 hopefuls were denied. I believe that those who get in have a responsibility to the rejectees, as well as ourselves, our families, and the institution, not to waste that gift.</p>