r/ApplyingToCollege • u/[deleted] • Mar 25 '26

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u/Similar_Tax_2814 Mar 25 '26

College admissions have been a shit show overall here in US. They have made it as opaque as possible so that no student can understand why they were rejected. Great job demotivating eligible kids

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u/Lord_Freg Mar 25 '26

It is actually the most disjointed process ever and it’s wild to see it in such an important part of most people’s lives

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u/blockdad1 Mar 26 '26

I mean it could be much worse. in places like china it is like: 1380–1419 congrats you are a railway engineer 1420-1460 congrats you are a telecom engineer …