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Is Luck Needed for College Admissions?

Barbara | March 14, 2011

This Thursday is St. Patrick’s Day, and if you are still waiting to hear news from colleges, you might be hoping that some good ol’ Irish luck comes your way soon.

College admissions, however, have less to do with luck than they do with SAT and ACT scores, essays, GPAs, and letters of recommendation. At least they do in theory. But every year, we hear stories of how top-notch students get downright rejected from schools and–on the flip side–how other mediocre students seemingly pull a rabbit out of a hat and get accepted to their first-choice schools.

It’s true that the fate of some college applications simply don’t make sense. I’ve known people who have made their first-choice schools only to be rejected by their so-called “safety” school. But it’s not your job to make sense of it, nor should you just toss aside the books and instead start looking for that four-leaf clover or that pot of gold in the hopes that your college search will end happily ever after.

Join us today at 4 PM ET on Twitter for our #CollegeBound chat in which we talk about how talent, hard work, and yes, perhaps a smidgen of good luck, all combine to get you into the college of your dreams.

–The CollegeBound Network

File Under: #CollegeBound, College Admissions

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