[mjfl]

It's too bad. The kid looked like he put a lot of effort into that site and and from the looks of it he is sufficiently competent. College Admissions is a crap shoot. They may as well set minimum requirements, race quotas, and then randomly accept people. Any assertion of "selection skill" beyond that is bogus. I got into one of the "top" schools in the country, and on one of the first days of school an admissions officer came up to me, asked my name and shook my hand, telling me that my essay was among his favorites ever. I never saw the guy again, to this day, and it's a small school. I don't think I saw any of the admissions officers actually around the student body they created. And further, while I acknowledge the talent of my fellow students, only very few were "super stars" with academic qualifications that far exceeded anyone I had met before. Most students (including non-athletes, non-legacies, etc) could be replaced by select students from my high school, who probably worked just as hard, and just not gotten lucky. I think the decision looks worse on Carnegie Mellon than it does on the student that made this page.

[reddog9287]

I agree! I certainly didn't intent to make anyone look bad, but I was just happy with the way the site turned out and the buzz it generated. Thanks!