<p>Whoa: refine your probability work before you present yourself to an employer. The fact that one college's accept rate is 10% can't just be extrapolated across the board. The statistical accept rates have little bearing on an individual's particular chances.</p>
<p>A person who is a completely unlikely admit from one program will just as likely be rejected from all similar programs. Correlation of facts must go into the formula you're making. </p>
<p>Regardless, good luck to you in your studies at Penn.</p>
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t's a painful process to put oneself up for evaluation and risk 'rejection' from faceless strangers, but it's how all college applications are, and in later life, when you apply for jobs, it will be similar. (So think about founding a company!)
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<p>Yes, because then the challenge will be being evaluated by customers. Some people like that worse than being evaluated by bosses. Everyone has to prove himself every day in the adult world. </p>
<p>Um, I was pretty astonished about the "probability problem" in post #60. A lot of people on CC reason that way, but those who do usually don't fare well in admission, because that is not correct reasoning about probability. </p>
<p>Good luck to this year's applicants, and to all the current college students pursuing their studies.</p>
<p>"risk 'rejection' from faceless strangers, but it's how all college applications are, and in later life, when you apply for jobs, it will be similar." </p>
<p>Actually, much worse. 95 times out of 100 you won't even hear back.</p>
<p>I wonder if more people are applying ED to schools like Brown and Penn and Dartmouth as opposed to "wasting" an EA application on Yale, since Yale has been so impossible to get into.</p>