Applicants who are eventually admitted would tell you ex-post that they had no issues paying 135 USD since it represents an insignificant percentage of the total investment but they did not know ex-ante that they would be admitted so your logic is fallacious. This is analogous to saying that a lottery winner wouldn't care to spend, say, 100 USD on a lottery ticket since he won it but ex-ante its pretty apparent that his act of purchasing a lottery ticket with the hopes of winning a lottery is statistically -EV.
With regards to your video and posts by other short sighted posters, a "crybaby" is someone who cribs about an unfavorable decision. I'm not cribbing about it and have stated it a couple of times already that this means little to me since I've other options (that I believe are much better programs apart from cost). I'm merely stating all this in the interests of transparency. Yes, I did argue in another thread that there seemed little room for my profile to be denied as I see it. But, I did not mean to say it with the intent of cribbing about it but to corroborate my point of view that the application process is unfair and whimsical as I understand it more so given my interaction with one of the members of the Admissions Committee who was also my first round interviewer.
Moreover, I have brought up other issues that clearly depict the unfairness and lack of rigor in ensuring an apt review process with incontrovertible evidence. In spite of this, the Director dstefan has responded to these specific cases with severely vacuous statements completely devoid of any new information merely trying to reinforce publicly available information on the Baruch MFE's website without providing any explanation as to why the issues I bring up are false; more so completely ignoring the evidence I provide. This behavior of merely reiterating information rather than responding relevantly and specifically providing apt clarifications that falsify my concerns is very much akin to politicians' and media personalities' behavior when asked a question that they are not comfortable responding to in a frank way. Moreover, he blatantly and wrongfully accuses me of "insulting" others without providing context as to which posts are "insulting". The ones that he does provide merely show "a lack of agreement" and can't be interpreted as "insulting" even by the most sensitive person under any stretch of imagination. He, on the contrary, conveniently ignores his ex-students "insulting" me and each other even when they do so in a way that can't be anything but "insulting" ironically.
Consider this :
As I have already mentioned on the "Columbia MSOR vs Baruch MFE thread", my first round interviewer clearly told me that he stated to the Admissions Committee that I answered all the questions correctly (I don't have any reason to doubt him since I did answer all the questions correctly except the last one which I answered partially correctly). Yet, dstefan states that on reviewing my application, there was a good reason to not extend an invite for a second round interview.
Don't you think it axiomatically follows that if there exists a reason that is critically unacceptable enough to not extend an invite for a second interview in spite of the fact that the applicant answered all questions on the first interview correctly (and the interviewer confirmed that as far as his views are concerned, he had only positives to state as claimed by him over the phone), then that reason must be critically unacceptable enough not to extend a first round interview invite in the first place itself ?
I, personally, do not comprehend how this can be part of a fair application review process.
I have nothing more to share, clarify or justify about this matter. If you (or anyone else for that matter who is reading this thread) believe it is an anomaly, do so at your own peril. Regardless of whether you take this thread seriously or hope it to be an anomaly akin to a helpless eternal optimist, I wish you my best and would seek to assist you in anyway I can regardless of whether you choose to reciprocate or not(even the ones who chose to insult me on the other thread).
