{"id":50525,"date":"2025-04-04T10:24:17","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T15:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=50525"},"modified":"2025-04-11T10:24:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T15:24:22","slug":"tryhardszn2025-this-is-going-to-be-my-favorite-story-this-szn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=50525","title":{"rendered":"#TRYHARDSZN2025: This, is going to be my favorite story this #SZN"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Trent Crimm, the Independent<\/a>: braggadocious teen mogul goes viral after being rejected by nearly all applied colleges, in spite of monumental qualifications<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m just going to go out on a limb here and say that I don\u2019t think any story for the rest of the #SZN is going to top this one.\u00a0 Sure, the #TRYHARD only applied to 18 schools, but he was rejected by 15 of them, despite having incredible qualifications as far as grades, accomplishments and frankly, life experiences went.<\/span><\/p>\n

What we have here, is probably one of the greatest examples in history of how the wrong attitude and approach can absolutely shitcan your chances of acceptance in the real world, because if you were to take the time to read this article and read his college essay, that he thinks he\u2019s so important as to call his personal statement<\/em>, it becomes absolutely crystal clear to why this he was rejected by nearly every school he applied to, despite having excellent grades, tests well, and the intelligence and savvy to become a young entrepreneur of a successful and profitable app.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many have already pointed out and dissected all of the numerous reasons to why this #TRYHARD was shot down in such embarrassingly overwhelming fashion, but it really boils down to the fact that his college essay absolutely turned off just about every single recruiter with any pull or power to accept.<\/span><\/p>\n

He basically shits on the whole notion of going to college, proclaims he had no intention of going to college, and sees college as simply \u2018a rite of passage\u2019 for teenagers growing up.\u00a0 Absolutely no college in America would want to admit some kid who has no real aspirations once they\u2019re in the door, and comes off as a massive flight-risk of dropping out, because he already has success and earning potential in his life right now.<\/span><\/p>\n

It feels like he\u2019s watched too many rite of passage movies, where plots of claimed that in order to stand out in the college application process, one has to be bold, take chances, and tell an incredible story.\u00a0 As insufferably braggadocious his essay is, it\u2019s extremely well written, reads well and tells a story, but the fact of the matter is that real life isn\u2019t a movie, and there\u2019s a level of vanilla, boring decorum that is expected, and frankly required, when doing things like applying to colleges or jobs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Proclaiming your disinterest for college and then bragging about all the reasons why you feel that way before saying \u201cbut oh wait, college is a rite of passage so I guess I should do it\u201d wasn\u2019t the right choice, and I\u2019m honestly more flabbergasted at the fact that this #TRYHARD didn\u2019t have anyone in his life to give him the guidance or advice that, yo, maybe this essay isn\u2019t the right approach.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I got the vibe that this kid has probably been raised with little emperor syndrome, which is pretty common in lots of Chinese and Middle Eastern cultures, where the first born son is basically invincible from criticism and coddled and sheltered from real world scenarios, and if he even sought any guidance about his essay, was probably told it was great and to run with it.\u00a0 Oops.<\/span><\/p>\n

What\u2019s funnier is the fact that this #TRYHARD took his beef to the internet, with the implication being that he genuinely thought the collective internet would really be on his side once he made his story public.\u00a0 As tone-deaf and clearly blind to understanding how the college application process works, he\u2019s clearly as clueless to how the internet works, and in no time flat, he\u2019s been dismantled, dissected and picked apart by the internet, with as much success finding people who sympathize with him as he was accepted into schools.<\/span><\/p>\n

On a side note, yeah the #TRYHARD biffed on all of the Ivies he tried to get into, but kind of a low-blow by the Independent to throw shade at the schools he did get into, calling Georgia Tech, the U and Texas \u201cless prestigious\u201d schools.\u00a0 I mean, they are less prestigious schools as far as not being Ivy League, but they\u2019re all solid educational institutions, with excellent specific programs, and all flush with cash on account of robust athletic programs.\u00a0 And they all clearly were capable of looking past his shit attitude and see the potential, and gave him the green light, when better or equally qualified applicants probably didn\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n

I know I take shots at Georgia Tech all the time, but there\u2019s no denying the school is among the top engineering schools in the country, and it might have the name value of MIT, but it\u2019s no slouch as far as its educational credentials are concerned.<\/span><\/p>\n

Frankly, #TRYHARD here has two options \u2013 forego college like he believed he was destined to do, focus on his app and ecommerce acumen, and follow the path of Zuck and become wealth and something without a college degree.\u00a0 Or, attend Georgia Tech and get an excellent education, go to Texas and soak in the college sport and immersive college atmosphere, or go to the U, where he\u2019d be living in Miami and lean into Miami living.<\/span><\/p>\n

As owned as he might have been in the college applications game, and on the internet, he\u2019s still in a very enviable position overall.\u00a0 He has acceptances to some \u201cless prestigious\u201d but reputable schools, basically his own business, and he\u2019s still just 18 years old.\u00a0 There\u2019s a tremendous time for him to learn and grow and grow the fuck up, and this would be a critical year and good basis for him to punt on 2025, take a gap year and try again the next year, and find some humility and perhaps use this experience as a means to write an essay that\u2019s not quite so insufferable as much as demonstrating the experience of being humbled and growing from it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Either way, who doesn\u2019t love a good story of some dumbass getting owned?\u00a0 And even better that it falls within the realm of #TRYHARDSZN, and ultimately is an opposite-story of instead of some #TRYHARD getting into 155 schools and amassing millions in cumulative scholarship offers, it\u2019s someone who got rejected by a bunch of schools, and entirely because of his own stupidity.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trent Crimm, the Independent: braggadocious teen mogul goes viral after being rejected by nearly all applied colleges, in spite of monumental qualifications I\u2019m just going to go out on a limb here and say that I don\u2019t think any story for the rest of the #SZN is going to top this one.\u00a0 Sure, the #TRYHARD … Continue reading #TRYHARDSZN2025: This, is going to be my favorite story this #SZN<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,45,191,78,83,52,89,156,182],"class_list":["post-50525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-comparison","tag-fail","tag-greed","tag-lowered-expectations","tag-observations","tag-owned","tag-racism","tag-social-media","tag-tryharding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50527,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50525\/revisions\/50527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}