I get all that; but I’m not going to change my mind on this.

by MattG, Thursday, April 09, 2026, 23:01 (7 days ago) @ bobbywal
edited by MattG, Friday, April 10, 2026, 06:46

There was - at some point - a subjective decision by SOMEONE to cut him out. There’s no objective criteria that would have done so.

And I don’t believe that ND is literally flipping coins.

And if they were, how many consecutive coin flips do you have to lose to fall from “top quartile of admitted students” to “literally not even waitlisted”?

Keep in mind - not the top quartile of APPLICANTS. The top quartile of ADMITTED.

(Edit to add / his essay was largely about how he worked as a tutor / mentor at our local resource center for low-income, primarily undocumented kids. It’s possible that it was just too political of a thing to talk about, or rubbed an admissions counselor the wrong way during the 2024 election season which was ALL about immigration. It would really just take one person to 86 it.)

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I get all that; but I’m not going to change my mind on this.