The Washington Post’s Jay Mathews has written a great article about different ways you can ruin your college application. After checking out the list, my personal favorite has to be this one:

4. College interviewers like jokes and exaggerations, so let fire. Dan4, a parent posting on Admissions 101, said his son blew his interview for the University of Pennsylvania by letting his sense of humor go too far. He told the interviewer, a woman, that if he got into Penn, he hoped to dump his dirty clothes on his aunt in Philadelphia since one of his personal goals was “to never have to do his own laundry.” I think this is a funny line. But the interviewer didn’t. Dan4’s son didn’t realize how much this had hurt him until a cousin the same age, with the same last name, met with another Penn interviewer who asked pointedly if they were related and if he did his own laundry. The interviewer wasn’t smiling.

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Ten Stupid Ways to Ruin Your College Application [Washington Post]