you're right. how did nobody catch rob halford though? he would have looked gay if he was in Wham!

i missed your post above arab but you ended up at chicago for law school, correct? i'm pretty sure i couldn't have got in there, i never went to classes i didn't like but did freakishly well in a few which doesn't erase a B- in watercolors. if you've gone, grad school is the better measure of what you can do as a grownup anyhow. there are so many kids at harvard that showed up as perfectly trained seals, whose parents must have used cattle prods to push them through 18 extracurricular activities and were little grownups on a mission when they left middle school. they'll always be able to find decent work, but the juggling bear act they did to get into college was their defining moment. you can spot these guys fast--they're the adults who you know aren't exceptional in their field yet you somehow hear they went to any ivy within the first conversation with them.

i kind of figured out pretty early that the fix was in on college admissions going to a fancy boarding/reform school. it was fun, there were lots of dumb kids with roots to the mayflower to start blowing heroin with at 15. some of them were simpletons, yet somehow they'd get into colgate or ucla. i had decent grades, mid 1500's(admittedly i was the first year after they recentered ;em) was able to play a little lacrosse, came from a known school with a known admission's officer(they're like #1 pitchers or rock stars for private schools)was a legacy and my mom buys office buildings. so around half of the criteria that got me in were totally out of my control, you can't will rich parents or choose what school they pay for at 14. shitloads of kids just as smart and smarter apply and get rejected without basically irrelevant shit like that. harvard's endowment is absurd-absurd enough to send over a decade of students through for free without reducing their operating budget. i'm glad they've taken me twice, but it's just not good policy to not take the kids with the most potential in favor of hoarding billions of dollars to secretly buy parts of surrounding cities up. life isn't fair, but at least there's some flexibility in paths to your ultimate caste and the system gets it right the next time around at the graduate level on talented people they fucked a few years earlier. it's more impressive to go from umass to harvard than vice-versa.