How Did a Student Completely TANK Their Own College Application?

Am I the Genius?

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🗓️ 14 December 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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0:00.0	How did a student completely tank their own college application?
0:04.0	The amount of students who glue rice to their applications to Rice University is too damn high.
0:13.0	My favourite email I ever received was a reply to an admission where all the kids said was,
0:19.0	Hey! We made it!
0:20.9	I printed that out from my desk for sure.
0:24.4	Graduate school admissions.
0:26.0	Our application requires four separate essays.
0:29.0	This student wrote all four as a long, drawn-out love letter
0:32.4	to one of our faculty members.
0:34.3	The faculty member wasn't taking new students into the lap
0:37.1	and had never met or talked to the
0:39.0	prospective student. The student had taken all of the info for her love letters from his website, in addition to
0:44.4	providing a list of his publications, also from his website, that she had read. I walked away from reading
0:50.0	her application with zero sense of who she was, but having learned a great deal about the faculty
0:55.0	member. We had an applicant send in a book they wrote and published themselves. It was
1:01.0	difficult for us to really read it because for some reason the book really stank. We just put it in
1:06.4	their file and shut the door. Like stank as in literally smelled bad? Yeah, it was awful. The book
1:12.7	itself seemed fine, but the odor made it really difficult to read. I am a college soccer coach.
1:19.8	I was at a college recruitment event. At these events, they hand out profile booklets. In the section
1:25.2	of interesting facts, one of the player's bios had an
1:28.4	ad for a car that he was selling. I know a college admissions person, and one time they told
1:34.5	me that a student wrote down that they can distinguish bra cup sizes by a simple glance at a woman.
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