Posted on 09/20/2014 6:28:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Harvard is one of the most prestigious universities in the world.
The Cambridge, Massachusetts, school accepted just 5.9% of roughly 34,000 applications for its class of 2018. As Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust recently said, "We could fill our class twice over with valedictorians."
The school seeks out students who not only have high grades, but also have outstanding achievements under their belts — from overcoming homelessness to starting their own nonprofits. The students who manage to catch the attention of admissions officers overcome exceptional odds, but they should maintain some perspective.
Many things in life — like landing a job at some Wal-Mart locations — are harder to achieve than getting into that prestigious university.
1. A Job At Some Wal-Mart Locations
Met with both merriment and protest, Wal-Mart came to Washington, D.C., at the end of 2013.
The store received more than 23,000 applications but hired just 600 associates, NBC Washington reported. That's a 2.6% acceptance rate — almost twice as selective as Harvard's.
While many Harvard graduates can expect a six-figure income, Wal-Mart employees pocket an average of $11.83 an hour or nearly $25,000 annually, according to the company.
2. The Top 50 Posts On A Friend's Newsfeed
When Facebook compiles your Newsfeed, it chooses from roughly 1,500 different posts.
The company uses an algorithm based on the popularity and relevance of posts, along with other factors, to decide what goes where.
The chances of a certain post finding its way into the top 50 stories on someone's Newsfeed is about 3.3%.
If you want to boost your chances, posts with photos do far better than links or text-based posts.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
I did not go to Harvard, so how is class work?
California’s execution chamber. . .
I have far more admiration for Hillsdale College and Liberty University than for Harvard, which has devolved to little more than a commie indoctrination center.
Barry Soetero Obama’s Scholastic Records.
Barry Soetero Obama’s Medical Records
Barry Soetero Obama’s Birth Certificates
a Good Mood After listiening to anything spoken by Barry Soetero Obama
Harvard? That bastion of Marxist thought? None of my children would ever go there no mater how much money I had.
Bingo!!!!!
one could rightly list....almost anything even remotely associated with Baraq Hussein Obama...but that would be one BIG project
I went to Harvard and graduated in 1957. Back then, you could still get a good education, IF you chose your professors carefully.
Now? Frankly, I think it’s gone beyond fixing.
Politically correct brainwashing. Go there if you are a flaming liberal who wants to get onto the road to power. But education it is not.
Funny (and accurate)
The jeans I wore when I was 22.
Getting into Sally Murray's pants when I was a sophomore in High School back in the 70's.
It was a Catholic school...should have known better. And don't give me any Billy Joel crap!!!
Right when they started getting vagues about the “other than grades” qualifications is when I was like, face palm.
He’s still an enigma wrapped in a mouldy taco....isnt he!
If you kid can into an Ivy League school you get them to the Ivy League school. While the profs are radical idiots, there are plenty of conservatives there. And if they are smart enough to get in, the know the difference between idiots and conservatives.
Going to an Ivy League school will not teach you any more, but your contacts and diploma will open doors not open to us mere mortals.
I know many Ivy League conservatives.
Harvard, the militarized marxist antimilitary campus...
liberals love their social security number... obama has got a collection of them.
Lisa in 1975....
The hardest thing I can imagine getting into is SEAL Team 6.
The hardest thing I can imagine getting into is SEAL Team 6.
MIT.
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