Thank God I'm Old

Harvard turned down 1,100 student applicants with perfect 800 scores on the SAT math exam. Yale rejected several applicants with perfect 2400 scores on the three-part SAT, and Princeton turned away thousands of high school applicants with 4.0 grade point averages. Needless to say, high school valedictorians were a dime a dozen.

I read articles like these and I just feel so glad that I began college over a decade ago. It was competitive but nothing like now! I did not go to an Ivy League until grad school but I can just image how competitive getting into my undergrad institution, the lovely Wesleyan University, must be.

I can just imagine the poor parents who have to comfort their kids. I mean, you get a perfect 2400 on your SAT, have a 4.0 and you get rejected from your favorite school. What kind of sense does that make? I remember that not getting into my dream college (aka Brown) was pretty hard for me and I did not have a 4.0. I guess college rejection is an early lesson to teenagers that life is not always fair and definately does not always make sense. I for one know that Wesleyan was exactly where I was supposed to be.

Comments

[L. Britt]

As a fellow Wesleyan alum, I feel the same way. I also think it's where I was meant to be because I got to know you there! :)

[Quel]

Awww, isn't that sweet.

Man...perfect scores and still rejected. I would hate to have to be the one at Yale to have to explain to those parents why their kid didn't get in.

[tuckergurl]

Aw, thanks!

[Beebs]

This posting upset me so. It makes me not want to have kids- I mean that is SOOOOOO ridiculous. There is no place in society any more for craftsmen and women and trades men and women- its this trickle up void that has created a world where everyone needs a college education just to survive and the chance to obtain an IVY one has become more of a lottery than a path trodden by merit. So sad!