Can You Get Into Yale?

Can You Get Into Yale?

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Allow me to tell you a story of a friend named Gary. Gary wasn't an overachiever, he wasn't at the top of his class, and he spend a lot of time in sports instead of on his homework, but still found time to usually complete it all. Gary was just an average high school senior. He realizes that he needs to start and should have started applying for college admissions some time ago, but he just can't decide on which university or college would help him achieve his goals. Knowing how helpful the internet is, he begins his college search over the web.

After some thinking on what kind of career he wants to pursue, he decides that he will just worry about getting his associates degree and then decide on a career. He finds a lot of suburban areas throughout the nation and locates a few prestigious colleges in each of them. He feels that he is wasting a lot of time since it takes forever for him to find each college admissions application and then print them off. He decides that if he only applies to about 10-15 colleges, that should give him plenty of insurance on being accepting into at least one of them. He starts filling one out. After about an hour of tedious work, he finally finishes filling just one out and puts it in an envelope, ready to be sent.

He proceeds to the next one. The information is very similar to the last application, but he presses on. The next application is almost a carbon copy of the previous one. This experience is similar to getting bounced around to different doctors and having to fill out your history of long medical problems over and over and over again. This is not what Gary wants to do.

He assumes that there is some kind of program that would make the process easier. He decides to keep looking for some type of help on the internet.

He goes back to the college webpages and realizes that he can just type in all of his personal info right on the site. Although it is a little faster doing it this way, it is still not much better for him. His typing skills aren't all they are cracked up to be. He figures since all of the applications basically ask for the same information, why can't he just fill in one application and send it out to all of the college admission officers across the nation?

He decides to do a search on Google. He types in apply for college online and and other similar words. He looks through some of the sites, but nothing is to his liking. He decides to be more specific and types in Dartmouth College Admissions and Yale Admissions because both of his smart buddies applied and got accepted there. He thinks maybe they knew something that he didn't. (Besides being more intellectual than him). He wants something more. All he wants is a little helpful tool that will make the college admissions process much easier. He needs some type of service that submits his application to the colleges and universities he wants to apply for.

"How can I find that?" he thinks. "What search would get me something like that?"

He is about to throw in the towel. While he knows exactly what he desires, trying to get it has become a chore. He has been spending many hours trying to find any information and is completely discouraged and distraught. Because of the whole ordeal. Instead of taking the time to fill in every online application, Gary just gives up with the internet and just sends in the two applications that he already filled out on paper.

Time goes by and he gets very nervous since he doesn't hear back from the colleges where he applied to. He is graduating soon and feels completely out of place as his friends are all getting acceptance letters from their chosen colleges. Many of them are also getting acceptance letters to some of the top colleges in the nation, such as Yale, Harvard and Dartmouth. Finally on the day of his high school graduation he receives both letters back. He gets very anxious as to where he will be going to college and opens them up. To his dismay, both letters start out with "We regret to inform you that..." He is beside himself and knows his mom will be very upset with him.

That night he graduates. His mom kicks him out of the house. He is forced to get a job at McDrivein's, where he spends the next ten years. Perhaps if the whole college admissions process wasn't so hard, he could have applied to many more schools where they could have seen his good personality before he was forced into working at the drive-in.

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