一斑窺豹

According to the FERPA Act, students and parents can get a file of the student's educational history. That includes admission files to universities, if the student was accepted and attended. After some Stanford student group publicized the fact, Stanford's admission office received over 700 requests to view admission files. Now Stanford and Yale are destroying their files to prevent students from having access to the (sadly) criticizing comments that admission officers write on their files. A journalist from Yale reviewed her file and wrote a complete overview of what it contained, including:
- notes on her parents' jobs and where they went to school
- notes on the socioeconomic diversity of her high school
- notes on how many students from her high school go on to 4-year universities
- checkbox for if she lived in a low-income census bract
- number ranking of her recommendations
- number ranking of her interview report
- brief comments/thoughts on her essays
- explicit definition on what role she would fulfill on campus

看到這，好像悟出點道了。各人的軌跡不同，走的路也不同。如果一定要走一樣的路，那路就一定坎坷。
今天晚上，藤校開榜，恭喜大家了。