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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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.