Not like the kid doesn't have enough stress.
I just wish they would get the iPod earphones off and quit smokin' da weed!!!
"Student agony grows along with top colleges' wait lists" by Peter Schworm, Globe Staff | March 27, 2008
Like jittery investors scrambling to hedge their bets, selective colleges and universities are placing far more applicants than usual on their waiting lists this spring as a safeguard against an unusually murky admissions season. But while the policy gives colleges some peace of mind, it plunges students into an admissions purgatory that could string out the stressful selection process for weeks to come.
Even education is a BIDNESS!!!!
A GAMBLING BIDNESS! And FUCK YOU, student!
Already getting shot up the ass with the loans, so this should contribute nicely!!!
Can't get the loan until you are accepted, right?
Colleges have typically been able to estimate the percentage of accepted students who will enroll in the fall with a fair degree of confidence. This year, several factors have conspired to thwart their projections: a shaky economy, record numbers of applications, and sweeping financial aid expansions that make it harder to predict what colleges middle-class families will choose....
What middle class?
How do you pay for college when the house is being foreclosed?
Financial factors are complicating the outlook. Students find out about financial aid packages shortly after learning of their acceptance, and the slumping economy is likely to force more families to base college decisions on cost. At the same time, many families will find it easier to afford high-priced institutions, as many selective colleges reduce or eliminate loans and sweeten financial aid packages....
Let's see: BILLIONS for WARS, BILLIONS for BANKS, and BILLIONS for Iz-ray-HELL, but for "EDUCATION?"
At least they will find the cream!
Dick Nesbitt, director of admissions at Williams College: "[For colleges], it's like picking the brackets in college basketball."
Ah, nice to know your education relies on the LUCK of the DRAW, students!!!!
You know, how often has a #16 beaten a number #1?
Some kids just don't have a chance, huh?
Like what if you are a "bubble team" that DOESN'T MAKE IT?
.... The end of early admission at Harvard and Princeton is also altering predictions of where the nation's top students will ultimately attend.
You know, the #1 seeds, folks!
The ELITES!!!!
Adam Goldberg, a college planner based in Braintree, said the swirl of variables and the increased competition among students and schools have intensified an already stressful process....
Why does school have to be "competitive?"
Isn't there one god-damn thing America can cooperate on?
I thought education was good for all.
Oh, that's right, INDOCTRINATION is a BIDNESS!!!!
Colleges have long used the waiting list as a way to round out their incoming classes after students have responded to admission offers in early May. It is also the point at which many schools select students to meet certain demographic goals....
But we have a meritocracy in AmeriKa, not quotas!!!
So stink elites get in and quotas are met while you go on the waiting list, 'eh, kiddos?
When does it end, readers?!
Almost 80 percent of highly selective institutions use waiting lists, and while most enroll relatively few students from them, such lists provide a comfort zone to make sure classes are not underenrolled.
Colleges say they do not use the waiting list lightly and are sympathetic to the stress it causes students. They say they are fielding many inquiries from counselors and students about the deferred applicant's chances of acceptance, but cannot give them much guidance until after the May 1 response deadline.
How much time would that give you to square things away?
A few months?
Yeah, stress the kid out even more, it's o.k.
Then you can pump him full of dumb-down drugs!!!!
"It can be very disappointing for them," said Susan Wertheimer, interim admission dean at the University of Vermont...."
Ah, fuck the kids!!
Given Parts I and II, it seems more about making and stealing money, not about educating kids.
Besides, these kids don't need to go to school.
They will likely be going to Iraq, Iran or Afghanistan anyway!!!!
