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Originally Posted by pinksequins
The piece also exhibits a common misunerstanding (regardless of campus)-- that the PNMs have a lot more say in choices. (How many times did she use the phrase "top choice"?). The real world operates similarly. More often than not, one will never hear one word from a company to which one submitted a resume and rarely will learn why she/he was not selected to interview. ("But I was a perfect candidate!!).
It's also possible that the bitterness/hurt is not due only to not getting a top choice (as there still were other groups in the mix) but also to her disappointment at not being able to manage her reactions to the process. If one is at Duke, this may be the first key disappointment she has experienced.
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Good point about the limited degree to which PNMs (or job applicants) have a say in "choices."
As to the sentence that I put in boldface, I would agree only partially. I'll bet that a chunk of those admitted to Duke (and happy with getting in) have been disappointed by being turned down by some of Duke's "peer schools." It seems to me, from what I understand about the makeup of Duke's student body, that those who apply to Duke may very well also apply to an Ivy or two or eight, or to Stanford, MIT, Northwestern, and to other more or less comparably selective universities or liberal arts colleges. Duke, for some, may have been a second, third, or even lower "choice" in the application game ("WOW! I got into Duke! Boo-hoo, Princeton and Stanford turned me down!")