<p>recfn - below is your previous post:</p>
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I had to laugh when I read about all the letters sent from places that are close to impossible to get in. We were invited to a presentation given by a few of the "elite Ivy" schools who spent the evening wining and dining us and telling us how wonderful their schools were--and everyone was oohing and ahhing and fawning over the presenters, and I finally stood up and asked them why they were spending the time and money traveling all over the country selling their schools when they end up accepting a very, very low percentage of applicants. They looked at me with a little smile, and said that they want to receive lots and lots of applications from all over the country, and this is how they do it. I agree that it looks good for them in U.S News rankings when their percentage of acceptances remains low. I also have a friend from an Ivy that was asked to donate one dollar to the school--it also helps the rankings when there is a very high percentage of alumni donating to the school (it doesn't matter how much) so everyone was asked to give at least one dollar.
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<p>It seems that on the one hand, you find fault with what you call "the elite" schools when they are being friendly (and see them as just trying to raise their ratings), yet here you seem upset that the red carpet was not rolled out for you. Are you sure you don't just have a problem with elite schools?</p>
<p>I smell a troll.</p>