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[-] whileloop@lemmy.world 122 points 1 year ago

I hope this is real. If you look into it and find it isn't real, don't tell me.

[-] Asswaterpirate@lemmy.world 125 points 1 year ago

If they excessively quote the original letter in their reply, it's not real. Nobody puts this amount of effort into a rejection when they are obviously being mocked by the sender. They would send a generic "not what we're looking for" rejection letter at most.

[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 57 points 1 year ago

This is almost certainly the case.

BUT

If I were an admissions officer and got an application like the one hinted at I'd probably put the time into a rejection like this since it's clearly what the sender was really after. I mean, it's clear fake, but I kind of wish it wasn't

[-] averagedrunk@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 year ago

The problem is that the second you responded to something like that you'd be buried in copycats the next year all hoping to go viral. So you've made your job more difficult or burnt bridges on the way out the door.

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 year ago

Doesn't it still cost like a hundred bucks to apply to harvard, or have they done away with that?

[-] averagedrunk@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Less than a hundred, and they still charge it.

[-] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Also, the dean of admissions is likely overworked and isn't going to waste time processing all that crap and writing a personalize rejection letter.

[-] averagedrunk@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

The guy in charge of letting people in to one of the most prestigious universities in America is overworked? The hell you say! (That's supposed to be read as friendly, not actually incredulous)

For real, it's not like job applications where a lot of folks just cut the pile in half and toss them, then cut it in half again and toss them (yeah, I've seen managers do that for jobs with high application rates). They've got folks going through just checking that the admission was properly submitted, another layer making sure the people who properly submitted are qualified, then they're weighted to toss out any that fall below a certain percentage of qualification. Then the dean makes decisions. And they're still probably way overworked.

Something like this got tossed out by the lowest possible level and that person wouldn't even have the authority to write anything except a standard form letter that gets signed with an autopen.

It's an entertaining fake, but definitely a fake.

[-] grandel@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

Don't listen to them! It's real!

I BELIEVE!

[-] TheCheddarCheese@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

please tell me then, is it real

[-] ad0c@asocial.thedroth.rocks 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Now I want to know if Harvard accepted her actual application.

Edit: they didn't

[-] Scrappy@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago

Why don't we ought to believe it's real then :)

[-] kromem@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago

Clearly Harvard isn't truly committed to diversity on campus. I'm guessing she was the only applicant to submit a 40 minute mix tape of animal noises, and yet they turned her down because there just wasn't a "40m animal noises mix tape" box to check.

A shame what modern education has become.

[-] Rekonok@sh.itjust.works 51 points 1 year ago

I miss 2015 internet so much…

Thanks for the glimpse

[-] ad0c@asocial.thedroth.rocks 3 points 1 year ago

This photo was new to me, I didn't know it was so old. Glad to see it brought back your old fond memories =)

[-] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 year ago

Bet it was a smashing mixtape, they just didnt have the palet for perfection.

[-] phorq@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago

Did the 40 minutes of animal noises contain what the fox says? Because if so I find the admissions committee to have bad taste in fine art.

[-] hemmes@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

How in the world is this a meme?

[-] cro_magnon_gilf@sopuli.xyz 63 points 1 year ago
[-] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

😬 hide the weed memes and act straight!...Good morning, officer. 😐

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