Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
but why is this kind of thinking appropriate in COLLEGE admissions, again? (I don't believe that it is appropriate there, actually.) The goal of a college or uni is to educate and shape students into learners and thinkers.

Because the career paths to Greater Glory are only open to certain people at certain times?

Because you end up on the post-industrial scrapheap at age 40, broken and in profound despair, because you don't make the right choices early in your career and get into I-banking, the Right Kind of Consulting, or the correct medical specialty?

Remember parents, it's never too early to point your children in the direction of dermatology!

Here is the story of one poor castoff from BigLaw who now has entered the "Despair Period" of his life.

http://insidethelawschoolscam.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-disappeared.html