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Okay, so, I'm an Admissions Counselor for a private college and part of my job is to contact students in our database that have expressed interest but haven't made a move to actually apply.  Today, I sent an email to prospective students reminding them that our deadline has passed, but we do have rolling admissions continuing until spots fill up.  I received this response from a high school student:

I never expressed interest in your school.  And there are typos in your email.  You should check that.

First, I'm totally OCD about grammar, spelling, etc. (I work for a college and I think we should put our best foot forward, ya know), and I read and re-read the email, had it checked by coworkers--there are NO typos.  Second, if there WERE typos, why is it necessary to point it out to me in that manner?  So like I said.  Kids today.... ;)

Who else wants to vent about their day?

@mrsmdphd - that's ridiculous! Sometimes I wish you could strangle people through the computer.

As for my experience with kids these days, it's St. Patrick's Day and I work in NYC. Need I say more?

@KLP2010 -- OMG.  That is horrendous!  I can't stand animal cruelty.  SERIOUSLY, where are the parents?  Good for you for stopping them!!

@eeh2010 -- I totally understand that he might be frustrated because he doesn't remember giving us his info, but this is how college admissions and recruiting works, and I remember it well also.  But really--if you get an email from a school you're not interested in, how hard is it to hit delete?  Do you really need to ruin my day?

Oi.  This is why I'm super glad I'm out of here in less than 2 months!  Grad school here I come!

Rude lil kid! Where I work I have my own office, and usually enter through the back door in the morning from the parking lot. Well 2x I found the same kids getting it on in the back. The first time they just left when they heard my car pulling in the second I told them that they could not be here and gave them the look of shame. I mean how gross! I mean girl have more respect for yourself then to be getting it on with a lil hoodlum in a dirty parking lot! ewww

So. RUDE!  At least you can hit delete- he's the one stuck being a jerk!

@zippylef - prostitots.  LOLOL.  :-D

@KIKI82 - SERIOUSLY?  Ick.

That is SO rude. I work at a university where kids drive nicer cars than me and I can't stand listening to them when I go buy my lunch because they talk about how crappy it is that they hate their BMW they wish they had a Lexus or they are going to buy the new ((insert expensive handbag, shoes, clothes here)).

@moderndaisy--I did respond, and that's basically what I said.  After I had written a few other choice sentences and deleted them.  If only.

@ejs--LOVE IT.  I wish!  If today was my last day, and my last day wasn't actually a ways away, I totally would have done it.  ;)

@mimi06d--whaaaaaaaaaat?? 

I work in university admissions as well -- I feel your pain! The amount of entitlement is insane! I graduated from undergrad in 2004, so not that long ago, but the attitudes seem to have changed SO much in that time!

Today alone a prospective student YELLED at a colleague who told her that she will need to take a few chemistry courses as part of her degree (it's a BSc!) and the student said she should be exempt because she took chem in high school (um, so did everyone else...it's required for admission into the program).

Another student called and told me that it was too much work for her to send us a copy of her high school transcript, so she was wondering if I could do it for her.....WTH?!?!

I'm sorry. I always tried to be polite to people I talked with about college and military applications. I know that I got seriously frustrated by the one college that I really want to go to though, because I took all of the tests I needed to take and filled out all kinds of forms and it wasn't until I actually brought the paperwork to the front desk to sign up for classes that they finally let me know that there was 1 year + waiting list for the program.

@silverbrooke - I just snorted my water.  LOL!

@MissGreen - I totally agree with you! 

I don't know who said it on this thread, but someone said that kids applying to college today are completely different than we were when we applied, and it's true.  They really seem to think that we owe them admission to our schools, and they act accordingly.  It's...off-putting...to say the least.

Definitely rude. I bet he wouldn't say that to your face - he can just hide behind the anonymity of the Internet.

I don't know, I've worked with kids for the past several years, and while I agree that some of them do have a sense of entitlement and behave poorly, at least they're kids/teenagers, i.e. still "growing up" - or so I hope. Adults behaving poorly, though? No excuse!!