those skanky ivy league bastards!

[cimorene]

::turns up nose at dorkorific, the presidential shrub and other ivy leaguers::

so in the amherst student today: an admissions officer at princeton was suspended, investigated, then fired and rehired (in a less important postion)... why?

because he used information from applicants' applications (name, dob, ssn) to hack into yale's new online notification system and find out if they'd gotten in.

but it gets more surreal: the site displays fireworks if the applicant has been accepted and a tasteful little letter if not (what, no lump of coal?)

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fireworks...

[sirndipiti.livejournal.com]

..just might be a way to gloss over the fact that even though you've been accepted at yale, yale is still in new haven

OTOH -- give someone control over a website and no telling wtf they'll come up with

instead of fireworks, it might have been yale's pres standing on a hilltop, arms spread wide in a jesus pose, robe flapping in the breeze exclaiming, "welcome to yale"

oh, kiss mah ivy-encrusted bootay. hahahaha! encrusted.

[dorkorific.livejournal.com]

you know, the way i was accepted to brown was this: there was a knock at my door, and i opened it and what should meet my eyes but the entire mormon tabernacle choir in full concert regalia, clapping and singing the Hallelujah Chorus, as seven becorseted maidens danced around me and strew (strewed? strow?) flower petals in my path, and a handsome, well-oiled male concubine came up and wreathed my head in ivy, and magical confetti rained down from the sky, and a herd of pink wild ponies rode up and nuzzled against me, and Ruth Simmons descended on a cloud from the heavens, smiling beatifically, and whispered, "welcome, my child, to your destiny."

and when i was rejected from yale, they actually sent me a steaming envelope of cow manure, with a hand-scrawled note attached that said "you wanted a Yale education, but it looks like you just got SHIT! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" and a form letter informing me that, regretfully, Yale had filled its quota of incompetent, useless morons for this year's class, but thanks for trying and maybe i can still work in the cafeteria if i'm very good.