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comment by ButterflyEffect
ButterflyEffect  ·  4128 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Confessions of an College Application Reader

"It's an objective system because I get to decide who gets what ranking and what criteria we are ranking these applicants on". That's what I got out of the system they have set up and how lead readers function. I realize that we're in a globalized and interconnected world, but why is there such an emphasis on "leadership"? It's not even something you can get a good sense of from reading an application. Secondly, not everybody needs to be a leader. It's the same thing with everybody having to be STEM major or being useless to society. Everybody needs a cook or a plumber just as bad as an Engineer. Same goes for a leader.





cliffelam  ·  4127 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Agree with you on leadership.

The other stuff is transparently part of the social agenda to promote flavor-of-the-day diversity over achievement. If I were Jewish or Asian my head would explode during the college admissions process, I'm sure.

-XC

glitchinthematrix  ·  4127 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think I read somewhere that one of the most important jobs for our society to run is of that in sanitation, a statement I can mostly agree with. Imagine if no one picked up your trash whilst living in NY? Shit would get hectic yo.