the college admissions process is not only arbitrary, it’s capricious.
Like assessing future based on the brand of car kids drive.
Financial aid can be downright predatory.
Myth of merit, in fact each admissions department is playing moneyball to get the best students for the least money and craft their incoming class.
We are going with education where china has already been for thousands of years.
Maybe I lucked out by being a passenger in the process?