What was the most pretentious college application you've ever seen?

I got to interview some students for a special program in my undergrad.

It was highly competitive and lots of people wanted in.

A young lady comes in, I offer her a seat.

Oh, I'd prefer to stand, thanks. This won't take long.

Oh, it won't?

No, my dad is the dean of one of the colleges, and my mum is one of the professors

who established this program. I'm getting in. I emphasized that she should really take a seat.

She refused again. So I say, hey, this interview? Me approving you as part of the process. You have to do

well in this to get in. You'll say I did well or my parents will make life hell for you.

Her parents had zero impact on anything in my life and I told her as such. After articulating

this to her, I said, I'm going to give you a chance to walk out the door and restart this interview.

Fresh start. She lost it and yelled at me for like five minutes. I filled out the interview

sheet with direct quotes from her

tantrum. She didn't get in. A few days after my decisions were made, I got an email from her father

who was, in fact, dean. He asked me to come in and have a chat with him. It was totally a request.

I went to talk to him. When I went to see him, he had a copy of the interview sheet where I had several direct quotes from his daughter.

Some of the quotes were awful and directed at me, my family and basically everything she could hit on.

He apologized profusely for his daughter and asked if she could redo the interview. He was leaning on me a bit at this point. I told him that choices had already been made and she was not selected.

The whole thing was mind-blowing. She was so entitled.

I worked in a very religious private school's admissions department for a few weeks, filing applications.

The parents had to write a letter about their child and why the school would suit them.

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