ext_3345 ([identity profile] rivka.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] rivka 2006-09-28 05:17 pm (UTC)

Also: how will she ever get into Harvard?

Sad, but true: she will write on her application, "When my great-grandfather was on the faculty here, he won the Nobel Prize." And that'll do it.

It's one of the reasons why I didn't even apply to Harvard. I realized that acceptance would be meaningless, because I would never know whether it was due to my own merits.

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