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ricevermicelli) wrote2006-06-26 04:49 pm
ricevermicelli) wrote2006-06-26 04:49 pm
Favorite Teen Problems
The kids, today, are having trouble with colleges. They can't figure out what they want or where to apply.
I selected the colleges I applied to by aiming darts at my hometown on a map of the U.S., and then applying to colleges near where my darts landed. Since I have terrible aim, after I wrote off the darts that landed in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, I was pretty much applying to colleges in California.
Someone recommended the Princeton Review's Counselor-o-Matic, and being a responsible adult, I went to check it out. I fed the dang thing my information from back when I had information (I used my actual SAT scores where possible, my actual high school, my actual major and actual talents - what talents there were, which is to say, not many). The thing spat back three lists of colleges. For some strange reason, Harvey Mudd was on the "good fit" list.
Which makes me think that the Princeton Review is broken. Me, with my grades, my interests, and my talents, could maybe have gotten in to Harvey Mudd if the dean had been interested in blowjobs from applicants. And even then, I'd have had to fight my way through the crowd of applicants willing to give blowjobs who were actually interested in majors that Harvey Mudd offers. And then I'd have flunked out.
The Princeton Review's recommendations didn't get a whole lot better. They suggested that I could, perhaps, apply to MIT, or RPI. Scripps did show up on the list somewhere or other. It was way far down though.
So in case anyone's wondering - Counselor-O-Matic is fucked in the head. That is all.
I selected the colleges I applied to by aiming darts at my hometown on a map of the U.S., and then applying to colleges near where my darts landed. Since I have terrible aim, after I wrote off the darts that landed in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, I was pretty much applying to colleges in California.
Someone recommended the Princeton Review's Counselor-o-Matic, and being a responsible adult, I went to check it out. I fed the dang thing my information from back when I had information (I used my actual SAT scores where possible, my actual high school, my actual major and actual talents - what talents there were, which is to say, not many). The thing spat back three lists of colleges. For some strange reason, Harvey Mudd was on the "good fit" list.
Which makes me think that the Princeton Review is broken. Me, with my grades, my interests, and my talents, could maybe have gotten in to Harvey Mudd if the dean had been interested in blowjobs from applicants. And even then, I'd have had to fight my way through the crowd of applicants willing to give blowjobs who were actually interested in majors that Harvey Mudd offers. And then I'd have flunked out.
The Princeton Review's recommendations didn't get a whole lot better. They suggested that I could, perhaps, apply to MIT, or RPI. Scripps did show up on the list somewhere or other. It was way far down though.
So in case anyone's wondering - Counselor-O-Matic is fucked in the head. That is all.
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And on behalf of those of us who know the admissions staff at HMC, that image was entirely unnecessary. :)