The Game
Wow, the aount of privacy the individual student has in college admissions is astounding. It gives the student the power to leave everybody else with no clue what is happening. For example, I had the application fee waived for RPI, so I theoretically could have had my family believing I'd never applied there. This power becomes really interesting as admissions decisions start to arrive. The privacy of decisions allows me to tell all sorts of lies about which schools have accepted me. So, if I lie inconsistently, what do most people end up believing?
The outcome mght tell me a great deal about which of my peers like to gossip about me. If it's ever discovered that all the confusion resulted from my own dishonesty, I could also learn how people react to my doing something that's out-of-character.
Suppose the adoped belief of the majority turns out to be the mistaken one. Who cares? It just makes the game that much more interesting. The truth will eventually make itself known regardless of what I do; my absence from school on April 12-13 is not likely to go unnoticed by my peers.
In other news, I lost.