Look Who Harvard and Stanford Rejected

Did a quick search and didn't find this article posted. I know these are just a few examples, but if these guys get dinged, I should just apply to Phoenix University and call it a day.

Look who Harvard and Stanford B-Schools just rejected

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People refuse to acknowledge the truth because they don't want to be completely honest about how unfair admissions can be. But college is destiny. If you had gone to Princeton instead of Penn, you probably would have worked for McKinsey instead of L.E.K. and then would have made a move to Goldman or Morgan Stanley instead of Barclays. You then would have been accepted at Harvard and Stanford. Instead, you might very well be going back to Wharton.

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People refuse to acknowledge the truth because they don't want to be completely honest about how unfair admissions can be. But college is destiny. If you had gone to Princeton instead of Penn, you probably would have worked for McKinsey instead of L.E.K. and then would have made a move to Goldman or Morgan Stanley instead of Barclays. You then would have been accepted at Harvard and Stanford. Instead, you might very well be going back to Wharton.

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That’s real shaky ground you’re on there. Read Stacy Dale and Alan Kruger’s study on college choice and subsequent income. In a nutshell, they use longitudinal data from thousands of respondents and find that students who had the same SAT score (intellectual ability) and applied to the same schools (ambition) will have the same income over their lifetime, regardless if one gets into the more selective college and another doesn’t.

DPCooper has it right; it's a crapshoot.

 

Utterly obnoxious. Thank goodness I've chosen to not involve myself in any of that nonsense.

I guess if Mr. Sandy Kreisberg acknowledged the fact that the selection is for students who will be spending the majority of their time with little to no clothes on and with their heads either in a beer mug or a toilet or near genitalia, that wouldn't sound as congruent with his blossoming consulting service and insightful analysis.

 

I actually just read all these yesterday at Poets and Quants. Sandy is an odd one, but he does know his stuff.

Frank Sinatra - "Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy."
 

Surprised the female tech applicant didn't get an interview. Not surprised by the other two - low GPAs are easy dings

 

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