Monday, May 5, 2014
Wal-Mart Has a Lower Acceptance Rate Than Harvard
Washington Post, Wal-Mart Has a Lower Acceptance Rate Than Harvard:
This year's Ivy League admissions totals are in. The 8.9 percent acceptance rate is impressively exclusive, but compared to landing a job at Wal-Mart, getting into the Ivy Leagues is a cakewalk.
Last year when Wal-Mart came to D.C. there were over 23,000 applications for 600 jobs. That's an acceptance rate of 2.6%, twice as selective as Harvard's and over five times as choosy as Cornell.
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Comments
Let's not get too crazy. People know just how selective Harvard and other elite universities are, and it costs $ just to apply, so people who know they are very unlikely to get accepted don't even apply. My guess is that alone would account for the peculiar numbers.
Posted by: John Biddle | May 6, 2014 7:33:09 AM
I see Thatch has never shopped at Wal-Mart if (s)he thinks their employees are getting results. The worst customer service can be found at Wal-Mart.
Posted by: Daniel | May 6, 2014 5:19:30 AM
I wonder if snobby New England parents will now put "Wal-Mart" stickers on the back windows of their luxury sedans?
Posted by: andy | May 5, 2014 4:53:50 PM
The truly sad thing is that a lot of Ivy League grads couldn't cut it at Wal-Mart. Can you imagine Obama having to ever work a job where he his continued employment depends on the results he gets rather than how much "free" stuff he can give away?
Posted by: Thatch | May 5, 2014 12:29:00 PM
This is actually great news, as we all know that Wal-Mart would be taking happy people, liberated from their jobless freedom, writing poetry or painting pictures as Nancy Pelosi has illustrated, and forced them into labor.
Posted by: Lippman's Ghost | May 5, 2014 12:21:32 PM
All those WalMart applicants should just borrow money to attend law school. That works out well for everyone everywhere all the time.
- S. Mimkovic
Posted by: Unemployed Northeastern | May 5, 2014 8:01:47 AM
These people are invisible to upper class society. Yet they are such a large segment of our population.
Posted by: JM | May 5, 2014 6:47:32 AM
@Unemployed Northeastern. Actually, rather than borrowing money to go to law school, the unemployed should borrow money from their parents and start businesses.
Posted by: Publius Novus | May 6, 2014 8:23:54 AM