{"id":50564,"date":"2025-04-29T22:04:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T03:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=50564"},"modified":"2025-05-09T22:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T03:05:07","slug":"tryhardszn2025-the-transparency-is-refreshing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=50564","title":{"rendered":"#TRYHARDSZN2025: the transparency is refreshing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-50565 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/princetonKumar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/princetonKumar.jpg 560w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/princetonKumar-300x154.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/news\/bensalem-high-school-senior-goes-viral-after-receiving-5-ivy-league-acceptance-letters\">FOX29<\/a>: Bensalem teenager accepted into five Ivy League schools<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">I know I said I probably wasn\u2019t going to be doing any more of these posts without just cause, but this one caught my attention due to the amount of transparency that was provided in the details, that I\u2019m more likely to believe than I would have some of the other Ivy League #TRYHARDs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">This isn\u2019t a story about how a #TRYHARD got the Ivy Sweep and got into all eight of the Ivies, but instead a story about how a kid had (supposedly) applied to seven of the Ivies, and gotten into five of them.\u00a0 Two were waitlists, but the fact of the matter is that there were zero rejections among them all, which on paper sounds like a tremendous coup.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Now I don\u2019t necessarily believe why someone would apply to just seven Ivies and leave one off, and in the case of this #TRYHARD, the one left out Ivy is Princeton, which means they\u2019re lying and they applied to all eight, or for whatever specific reason, they have reason to beef with, and not apply to Princeton.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">However the point remains that although she\u2019s waitlisted to Harvard, she did get into Yale, which means even an Asian parent could find some solace in that monumental win, and on top of that, still got accepted into Columbia, Cornell, Brown and Penn, which are just the cherries on top for parental bragging rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Either way, the reason I felt some compulsion to write about this story is the fact that it hasn\u2019t been outright fluffed to the point where they proclaimed that they got into five out of five Ivies, and actually have disclosed that they didn\u2019t get into some of them.\u00a0 A waitlist isn\u2019t necessarily a rejection, but I\u2019ve always been under the impression that it\u2019s basically like 66% a no, since these are schools that are waiting on other #TRYHARDs to make a choice, and if they get bypassed, then they hit the waitlist and pull from there.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">And seeing as how with the Ivies, it\u2019s probably nothing but other #TRYHARDs in all the pools of acceptances, waitlists and rejections, along with their absurdly low acceptance rates, I\u2019m going to go ahead and say that those waitlists are basically no.\u00a0 But seeing as how this #TRYHARD has already declared leaning towards Yale, it\u2019s not like it really matters that she\u2019s getting the axe from Harvard and Dartmouth, and might as well keep on saying fuck Princeton.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOX29: Bensalem teenager accepted into five Ivy League schools I know I said I probably wasn\u2019t going to be doing any more of these posts without just cause, but this one caught my attention due to the amount of transparency that was provided in the details, that I\u2019m more likely to believe than I would &hellip; 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