“Omg, just applying to a college that rejects X times more kids than it admits opens cans of worms. People are going to fret endlessly about what went wrong. And then point fingers. And then look for self-serving proofs.”
I think a lot of these people are just arrogant. They look at the top colleges with acceptance rates of, say, 15%, 10%, 5% and they STILL think they “deserve” to get in and if they don’t, someone else “stole” their spot. They’re simply too arrogant to stare those numbers in the face and understand that the odds are overwhelmingly against them getting in, end of subject, and if they get it, they should consider it a lucky star extra, not an entitlement.