Monday, March 27, 2006
|What Q said.|
(All good things must come to an end.)
I received my first rejection today (not counting the Berkeley waitlist), from the University of Chicago.
I don't know if it's the fact that I've more or less settled on Penn (after having spent a really great weekend there) or the fact that I realized weeks ago that I had no interest in Chicago or the fact that I was accepted into a "better" (read: higher ranked [NYU]) school, but I really don't care. I mean, I care a little bit, but really, at this point, I feel like I'm just collecting trophies. So that's one less head to mount on my wall -- so be it.
And I'm not surprised it happened. The fact that I didn't expect to get in anywhere good notwithstanding, Chicago deferred me and allowed me three options to beef up my application: 1) interview, 2) write an additional essay following one of the 3 prescribed topics or 3) send in an updated transcript. 1) was not doable because it required flying to Chicago, and I wasn't going to shell out money for a trip that would not be reimbursed to interview at a school that I probably was not going to get into -- and the very idea I found wholly offensive because it's yet another one of those measures that allows the wealthy to get a leg up. 2) also offended me because the topics weren't like "write about a challenge" but more like "analyze the death penalty in light of the following hypothetical" and while it was only a 3pp requirement, I could hardly do something like that without putting in some kind of legwork/research but, oh oh, I'm still in school and already have plenty of work that will actually count for something to do. So I sent them an updated transcript, and I wonder if taking the lazy man's way out is worse than doing nothing at all.
The world may never know.
(All good things must come to an end.)
I received my first rejection today (not counting the Berkeley waitlist), from the University of Chicago.
I don't know if it's the fact that I've more or less settled on Penn (after having spent a really great weekend there) or the fact that I realized weeks ago that I had no interest in Chicago or the fact that I was accepted into a "better" (read: higher ranked [NYU]) school, but I really don't care. I mean, I care a little bit, but really, at this point, I feel like I'm just collecting trophies. So that's one less head to mount on my wall -- so be it.
And I'm not surprised it happened. The fact that I didn't expect to get in anywhere good notwithstanding, Chicago deferred me and allowed me three options to beef up my application: 1) interview, 2) write an additional essay following one of the 3 prescribed topics or 3) send in an updated transcript. 1) was not doable because it required flying to Chicago, and I wasn't going to shell out money for a trip that would not be reimbursed to interview at a school that I probably was not going to get into -- and the very idea I found wholly offensive because it's yet another one of those measures that allows the wealthy to get a leg up. 2) also offended me because the topics weren't like "write about a challenge" but more like "analyze the death penalty in light of the following hypothetical" and while it was only a 3pp requirement, I could hardly do something like that without putting in some kind of legwork/research but, oh oh, I'm still in school and already have plenty of work that will actually count for something to do. So I sent them an updated transcript, and I wonder if taking the lazy man's way out is worse than doing nothing at all.
The world may never know.
promulgated by SWS2.1 at 19:40.
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1 Comments:
damn. u chicago changed my life. would have been nice to have you here. oh well, i'm sure you'll succeed wherever you end up!
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