The Letting Off Steam Thread - Page 131

As an aside let me reveal that I don't use the word faggot to put down gay people.

Perhaps I am just a cynic but I don't understand this world any more.

I was just deferred from my favorite university. For you eurobros out there, it might be new information for you that universities in the US do not admit based on academic success alone but rather on a whole bunch of other things. I actually wrote a blog about this but some people didn't understand it or thought that I felt needlessly entitled, but I'm going to write a little bit more because I'm mad.

"Holistic admissions" is so fucking dumb. You can do everything right and still get fucked over because of how much melanin is in your skin or because the "context" of your life was too privileged for what you accomplished. The people that do get in are the faggots that are all doting over their unique essays and activities outside of school as if that makes them more deserving than anybody else. I could have written about stupid stuff like that too, but I didn't because it seemed fucking retarded and I felt like an idiot for even writing a little bit of that masturbatory shit. I don't know if my peers actually believe all this shit that they say or not. Honestly if you go to a highly ranked school the odds of you doing anything other than consulting, banking, engineering, research, or going to a professional school for law or medicine are quite low. You aren't going to change the world by being some worthless fucking non-profit worker, or for "following your passions XD." I don't know if 17 year olds are just delusional or what, but if you look at what graduates of top schools are doing they certainly aren't (for the most part) following unique paths in life or expounding upon their passions. They are out there making bank.

Unfortunately the admissions departments at schools are all filled with the kinds of people that should be kept away with a ten foot pole. Caltech, for example, is probably one of the most science-oriented schools in the country. However, their admissions department is run by all of these fucktards who couldn't find real jobs with their PhD's in slavic folklore (you think this is a joke...) or bachelors in racial studies. The problem is that people with real jobs aren't working for admissions departments. I suspect that admissions would be a lot different (and a hell of a lot better) if professors in actual academic disciplines were the ones reading applications. I consider myself liberal but it pisses me off that all of these politically correct dumbasses decide if I get in to college.

I look around me and all of the people I know who score in the top .5%, top .1% or even top .03% on our national tests are all getting turned down by colleges because we are not these special unique individuals who have some quirky hobby that somehow affects getting in to college. Why do colleges think that it is cool or unique if someone has an interest in knitting or swimming or cooking? How is that at all relevant? It's all fucking BS.

I'm beginning to think that maybe I am just not in the loop and everyone in the college admissions game is simply practicing a perverted exercise in doublethink whereby everybody but me is just spewing 99% worthless shit about themselves so that they can suck a college's schlong for four years, where everybody knows that they are mostly releasing their runny feces all over their application, including the readers, but that somehow they are able to trick themselves into believing that they are letting in the right people. For some data to back me up, allow me to link some posts from one of MIT's admissions readers which reveal almost completely what is wrong about college admissions in this country.

http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/the-difficulty-with-data
http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/in-praise-of-holistic-admissions
http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/diversity-or-merit

Chris is either retarded or a complete sell-out. He reminds me of those tech support people who are always very oddly polite, I guess because that's part of their training. He is very politically correct and very cordial, but says very, very little other than "we holistic, lolz" with the rest mostly being filler. It is actually hilariously unspecific.

I can't decide whether to sell myself out and embrace my le epik inner quirkiness for my other applications / updates or just to say fuck it and add some little excerpt along the same lines as this post but with less expletives and more political correctness. I already sold myself out to this completely pseudo-intellectual school in Chicago with some questionably quirky essays that were mostly fake (not factually but I felt disgusted about them). BTW if you want to read some of the bullshit essay questions that our American schools ask you need not look any farther than the University of Chicago

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I don't even know why I want to go to that school. I guess I want good job/ grad school placement but I don't want to spend 4 years among insufferable dumbasses who want to discuss Plato and deontological ethics as if they actually care and aren't just trying to impress people.

my dog jasper died and i feel lost