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It would be “fair” if the amount of effort put into the hiring process was symmetrical. In the first stage of the hiring funnel, the candidate sends a pre-written resume and quickly written cover letter, and the company reads them. See? Approximately equivalent effort. In the second stage, the candidate spends a half hour on the phone, with a company representative. Equivalent costs, equivalent effort. In the third step, the candidate comes to the office and interviews. Again, equivalent effort.The relationship becomes asymmetrical if the company asks the candidate to do a bunch of work before the company commits any resources.If the candidate has to hand-fill a lengthy form that essentially duplicates the information on their resume, that is an example of an asymmetric relationship.If the candidate has to solve a problem on hackerank for an hour before getting the phone screen, that is a little asymmetric.If they have to spend a whole weekend doing a longer programming sample, that is quite a bit asymmetric.These requirements are “unfair” in the sense that the company has asked the candidate to spend a bunch of time that the company eventually values at $40–80/hr, without committing anything at all to the process.When I get into a hiring pipeline which makes significant demands on my time before the company commits any resources, this signals to me that the company will probably also view its relationship with employees as unequal in a way that favors the company. I will look at a long application form and move on to the next web site. I will look at a long coding assignment and walk away unless it piques my interest. I know I am a worthy candidate with valuable skills and experience (not a fresher desperate for their first job).My experience is that I am even less likely to get further down the hiring pipeline with these companies than I am with companies who make the same effort they are asking me to make. There is thus no payoff to justify the extra work they expect.

Probably not anytime soon. The only realistic way would be a third, or multiple third, parties growing to the point where they become more than a heckler in the room. This can happen. It has happened in other countries. But, it is not likely to happen anytime soon, when, despite all our complaints and outrage, most people are not willing to potentially disrupt their relatively decent lives.But, that is not to say the republican party is worthy. They are immoral at their core, as a matter of policy. And I'm not talking just about their steal from the poor and give to the rich philosophy. Here's just a small list:Republican Supreme court appointing George W Bush president. They couldn't even come up with a decent argument for doing so. Their reason amounted to it would take too long to recount Florida's vote. Yeh, right. The entire country's votes are counted in how long?The same court ruled huge corporations were the same as an individual for contribution purposes when even a middle schooler knows corporations were created as “people" for liability purposes.All across the country, republicans are inventing claims of voter fraud to suppress typically Democrat voters.They take huge sums from gun lobbies and claim they are merely “protecting" people’s rights. But not the right to vote. Or live. Unless, of course, they are an embryo.They denied a constitutionally proscribed hearing on Obama's supreme court pick but placed a sex assaulter on the court — for the second time in recent history.They sent a letter to Iran telling it the US will ignore the agreement Obama worked out (treason). Yet they do nothing about trump turning us into a pariah nation.McConnell blocks anything that might endanger his payoffs, even smiling that he did it because he can.The republicans arranged for their welfare for the rich and destruction of the ACA while shutting Democrats out of the process. Yet over 100 hearings and committee actions were taken to defeat the ACA.This is just a sample.And we all know how they can’t resist interfering with women's bodies but love the death penalty.

Before taking the ACT, I took a couple of the practice tests in the booklets—nothing formal, just practice tests. I got in the 99%tile with something like a 34 composite.Before taking the SAT, I went on a date the night before with the then girl of my dreams, never bothered to look at any practice exams, and got in the 95%tile (or maybe even worse).Moral of the story? Take test prep. Take Test Prep. TAKE TEST PREP! (then date the girl or boy of your dreams:)I don’t care what anyone tells you, the people who do extremely well on the tests, by-and-large, prepare for them professionally or at least diligently, with professional resources. They will lie through their teeth and pretend they didn’t prepare, but they did—often at great expense. The payoff is huge and understandable (and I say all this having never ever worked or been involved with a test or application prep organisation).The fact is, once a person does well on standardised tests, it is hard for any school to outright reject him or her. The level of assessment raises admissions committee focus from a baseline question of whether that person is in the right league, academically, to a residual question of whether that person is interesting. And being interesting—and reflecting that interesting nature in your application—is the main, additional hack to getting in.Now before saying more about that, it’s worth addressing the likely thought that test-prep is superficial: It really isn’t. Test-taking is a skill and if one learns that skill well, one learns how to think differently or, at least, more efficiently. That efficiency can be vital when, for example, one is bombarded (as the typical elite school student is) with mountains of work, competition with other bright students for grades and a burning desire to do other more interesting things than problem sets and boring reading.Thus, test-prep—in my view—is really a way of making the whole academic experience (especially the boring parts) a bit simpler and easier, leaving time for the good stuff. If I were an astoundingly rich man, I’d pay to have test prep provided for every aspiring student who can’t afford it. It can be that consequential!But back to becoming ‘interesting’…Of course, the 99%tiler can always say, “School wasn’t interesting and that is why my test scores were so high but my records were so average,” as there are lots of uninteresting schools with unchallenged, smart students. But did he or she respond to his or her boredom by doing or being something more interesting?That is the question asked by elite school committees. And this is what so many people fail to understand.You will read here about legacies and minorities and all that sort of politically-charged nonsense. But trying to deduce what makes for an entering freshmen class by examining visible attributes of an entering freshman class is a bit like trying to evaluate how well cars were being driven on a freeway by analysing the tire marks and oil spills, hours later.It is just a sample, a noisy sample and even a biased sample.The matriculating freshmen are only a self-selected, fraction of those admitted and those admitted are a self-selected fraction of those who applied and those who applied are only a self-selected fraction of those who, if they’d applied, might have been admitted. And we know nothing of those who were wrongly rejected because they went out the night before their SAT with the girl of their dreams!So by observing the resulting sample one, at best, observes a sample riddled with survivorship bias.Moreover, the average, median, minimum or maximum test score of an entering freshmen class says little about what that institution sees as its baseline—so comparing students across gender, ethnicity, etc., by score attributes does not mean higher scoring groups are more capable. In other words, scoring beyond the baseline (which might differ across majors, in fact) means very little.More scientific is the understanding that elite schools add their own (typically qualitative and invisible) criterion to the baseline in assessing whether the person would be a good match for the environment and the desired culture of the institution. Thus, I’ve no doubt that no matter how ethnically, religiously or gender diverse an entering class at Princeton or Harvard might be in observable characteristics, all the students are extremely similar in their desire for achievement and their frames of reference for achieving it.The hack is then to figure out what culture the school is trying preserve or improve with its admissions process. (Harvard, no doubt, had to re-examine its admissions process after the Uni-bomber.) Thus read closely, for example, the school’s website, its annual report, its admissions committee statements and its president’s statements about where they are going.In other words, find out where they are and where they want to go, and see whether you seem like one of the people who can take them there.So here are my hacks: Take test prep (did I say that?), be interesting and do something interesting that shows you are interesting and not selfish (no one likes selfish people)—and make sure that interesting self is shown in your essays, your extra-curriculars and your reference letters. (IMPORTANT: Make sure you read your reference letters before sending them and don’t accept any from anyone who refuses to let you read them or its draft.)Last, if you’re fortunate enough, don't dare avoid dating that person of your dreams, for a happy applicant is a great colleague, and elite schools look for happy. (Just try not to do it the night before your SAT!)