Admissions

Right now, in my office, three people were waiting for a letter of acceptance to the PhD program at a local college. Two of them are recent graduates and one already has her Master's Degree, worked in the field for ten years and wants to become a psychologist. The two recent graduates were accepted last week. The third person is still waiting to hear from the school. The two that were accepted have not made it public yet because they do not want to upset the third girl. I found out from my boss. The first two are nice kids with good grades and no real psychology background. The third is a brilliant girl who is the most competent person I ever met. She has more knowledge than most psychologists and even psychiatrists. She knows medications, side effects, dosages, therapies and has a great skill calming and comforting patients. She runs groups and has started support groups for conditions that other people did not think were important. She is now doing a drug study for the FDA to approve a medication for depression, for people that are drug resistant. Her grades are wonderful and she thought her interview went very well. Why did she not get her approval yet? The program is limited to 25 students. Is she the 26th? Has another student's family bribed their way into the program? With all of the publicity about the college admission scandal that has erupted this week, it makes me think. If she is not accepted, it is not only a loss to her, it is a loss to the world. When people think that bribing their way into a place they do not belong hurts no one, they need to think again.