Go to plumbing trade school! College really isn't anything special now adays, and plumbers have better job security and make more than most college grads I know.
My Reverse College Application
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#12Guy has posted this every day for a week now
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#13"Modeling my it off of"
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#14I can no way put myself into your shoes and behave like I understand. I don’t. If it was me, I would be heart broken at that age. Now that I’m older and done with college, I feel a sense of relief for him. But that’s maybe because I’m projecting my experience on to what I should’ve felt if I didn’t go to college. Financial, parental, social stress aside, this is beautiful. It definitely seems like you have a better h…
> I would be heart broken at that age. Now that I’m older and done with college, I feel a sense of relief for him.
This is funny because for me it's the opposite. I didn't apply to Stanford, Harvard or any of the other Ivy+ schools he applied to - only applied to two elite schools that I got rejected from and I'm still heartbroken!
With that said, I'm impressed that Ryan did this instead of having a quarter life crisis like I did.
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#15The whole "getting into college" thing in the US sounds awful. I'm glad I did it elsewhere.
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#16Just go to a state school like a normal person.
What an absurdly unhelpful comment. There's nothing abnormal about you Ryan. I hope you find something interesting and educational to do. I'm excited to see where you end up.
"There's nothing abnormal about you Ryan".
What a horrible thing to say to someone! That is equivalent to saying "You are not unique in any way Ryan".
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#17I applied to colleges back in 2006/7. Did something drastic happen to college application competitiveness in the last decade or so? I'd understand getting only rejections if he only applied to Ivys or something; but, I have a hard time accepting that he's anywhere outside of the caliber of the top 10% of applicants. Is it because of the degree programs he applied to?
I'm not super impressed by his stats, I had a better class rank and GPA and SAT and I was never elite school material but his extra-curriculars are pretty good. The problem being that most of these schools want an overarching theme in their application.
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#18Just go to a state school like a normal person.
Yeah, a part of me agrees because I did it and never intended to go to an elite school (I was never good enough!) but at the same time it's still a more constructive way of handling rejection than I did so I can't really complain.
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#19Just go to a state school like a normal person.
What an absurdly unhelpful comment. There's nothing abnormal about you Ryan. I hope you find something interesting and educational to do. I'm excited to see where you end up.
Nothing unhelpful about the comment. There are some excellent state schools: Georgia Tech, Penn State, UMass, Virginia Tech, just to name a few. The education is top-notch, the rest is indeed what you make of it.
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#20There's nothing wrong with this guy except for maybe the fact that he thinks he deserves to get into a top school. Top schools are really just as good as a lot of lower acceptance rate schools. The point is the piece of paper, not necessarily where you go. Where you go has ancillary benefits like connections and more opportunity, but that doesn't make you any lesser if you take a school with less of that. Some of the…
This is specious. It's pretty clear that if Ivy+ acceptance didn't mean anything nobody would go. There is a genuine bar here that admits pass that non-admits don't. As a non-admit, I realize this more and more every day after graduating from a non-selective college.