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When I applied to UChicago with 1530 SAT they said I wasn't admitted because I had no extracurriculars. My mom called them for some reason to ask about this and she said, "but he's and Eagle Scout and does tons of things and volunteering and career programs with Boy Scouts".
The admissions officer said "I don't really know what any of that is."
All we need to know about admissions can be learned from the USC application coaching scandal. There's this model of what a "good applicant" would be and even the professors, even boomercons like Dave Collum think this is what makes a proper college student. The problem is, it's just a fucking model and it can be totally spoofed.
If admissions can be gamed and spoofed, how many thousands of white males are overlooked because their boomer parents didn't think you had to game admissions and that smart kids would just "get in"?
Of course, every fucking black male is a secret genius that simply can't translate it because the veil of ghetto culture conceals their genius. But regular white dudes that don't fit the mold of the perfect Asian student? Must just be lazy dirtbags.
Then again, lol, I had a chance to do a prestige internship in high school with NASA and I turned it down because I had just learned how ineffective and in some ways corrupt NASA was and since I was young I assumed that if I had just learned this, soon everyone would surely also uncover it, and NASA's days were numbered and wouldn't my teacher surely admit the same if I explained this new information to them?
Lol.
Normie teachers have always been allergic to smart kids. High-performing extroverted midwits? Teacher crack.
Every once in a while some smart kid slips through and does something worthwhile and then you hear "don't fit in, use your imagination". But they never actually reward that. Weirdest mindfuck these boomer teachers pulled.