This was a young man's answer to an Ivy League entrance essay

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Really? Nice.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Im guessing he was rejected.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

he got in I believe.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yep, he got in

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Unfathomable. That is unfathomable

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Someone I know already did. His teacher failed him for trying to pull an MLIA move.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

His teacher is a dick. And why is this a MLIA move? MLIA is a stupid website that people post fake stories on so people can laugh. Putting that answer wouldn't be stupid, its the right answer.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It isn't as you did not address the prompt fully.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

isnt an example much better than describing it?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Nope. Collegiate standards require analysis and depth. Examples only further analysis.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

What if thats the answer they wanted? there was a dude i used to baby sit for and he also subbed one of my classes one day and he was talking about how his teacher asked everyone to write an essay on "why" and if you did good you got to walk out of the class with an a, one kid wrote "why not" and got to walk out of the class room. maybe they are looking for a something special, ya know?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I find that highly unlikely. Maybe in a lax classroom setting, yes. But I would argue thin most, if not all, real life situations would not call for this. Should you be given a college entrance essay or an actually test with this question I doubt any answer that short would be acceptable. Frankly, real life isn't like this.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

i dont think my sub teacher/ ex neighbore would lie about that. and it wasnt a college entrance essay, it was the first assignment

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well, like I said, in a classroom setting its different

by Anonymous 13 years ago

dont blur the line between courage and stupidity

by Anonymous 13 years ago

This reminds me of a fable I heard of a psychology teacher who asked his students to prove that a chair he displayed to them didn't exist. One astute student put on his answer response "what chair?"

by Anonymous 13 years ago

YLIA. Also that isn't courage, that's stupidity, either you're deliberately failing the test for the sake of //trying// to be funny, or you genuinely think that that might be an acceptable answer to that question and are 'brave' enough to try it because YOLO or whatever.

by Anonymous 11 years ago