It’s Harder to Get a Job at Walmart Than It Is to Get Into Harvard

[DAlbert]

• Samantha Grossman @sam_grossman

March 31, 2014

The campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. John Coletti / Getty Images
The Ivy League institution has an acceptance rate of 5.9%, but a recently opened Walmart in Washington D.C. only hired 2.6% of applicants
It’s pretty difficult to get accepted to Harvard, if you were unaware. This year, the elite institution admitted just 5.9% of applicants, according to newly released data.

Here’s the thing, though. Getting into Harvard is truly a piece of cake compared to getting accepted for a job at Walmart, at least according to data crunched by The Washington Post.

The Washington Post reports that when a new Walmart opened in D.C., 23,000 people vied for 600 job openings. That means just 2.6% were accepted. Compare that to Dartmouth’s 11.5%, Cornell’s 14%, University of Pennsylvania’s 10% and so on, and you’ll see that Walmart is way choosier than all the Ivy League institutions. Even Harvard. We repeat, even Harvard.

Sorry, Ivy Leaguers, but Walmart is officially a way more elite and exclusive club.

http://time.com/43750/walmart-acceptance-rate-lower-than-harvards/

april fools?

 

[King Sun]

Would explain all of tose empty counters

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

Yeah but if that student doesn't get into Harvard they will still get into a prestegious school like Duke or Rutgers and get a degree.

What the fukk will that Walmart cashier get out of that job?

Article is fukking stupid. I got 5.7 percent stupider by wasting my brain cells processing that bullshyt article.

 

[DAlbert]

Yeah but if that student doesn't get into Harvard they will still get into a prestegious school like Duke or Rutgers and get a degree.

What the fukk will that Walmart cashier get out of that job?

Article is fukking stupid. I got 5.7 percent stupider by wasting my brain cells processing that bullshyt article.

Its just expressing once again the fact that times are hard

ain't like college is a great option now a days anyway

 

[Domingo Halliburton]

Its just expressing once again the fact that times are hard

ain't like college is a great option now a days anyway

you do understand they're skewing the stats by taking one wal mart store out of over 10,000 in the world.

 

[tmonster]

for who?

 

[tmonster]

Its just expressing once again the fact that times are hard

ain't like college is a great option now a days anyway

college is and always has been the greatest option there ever was

 

[DAlbert]

you do understand they're skewing the stats by taking one wal mart store out of over 10,000 in the world.

true

college is and always has been the greatest option there ever was

lol

 

[Mr. Somebody]

Article makes no sense. There are only a certain number of positions available and once they're filled no one else can get in. Getting into harvard is difficult because of quotas and academic standards. The standards for getting into walmart arent that high but once the quota is met, the door is closed. What silly logic in that article there, friend.

 

[Yuzo]

you do understand they're skewing the stats by taking one wal mart store out of over 10,000 in the world.

erry job is like that now

 

[88m3]

lol at the logic here

 

[Jhoon]

college is and always has been the greatest option there ever was

It fits the narrative that some folks can be over educated. Only in America will people marginalize education and not propose an alternative.

 

[Yuzo]

Only in America will people marginalize education and not propose an alternative.

because there isnt one

 

[Jhoon]

because there isnt one

Newt Gingrich isn't a fan of everyone going to college. But in a nation that cannot fathom everyone should have healthcare, it would make sense they would be against higher learning. If economic growth is measured by the lack of education, within a generation or two, this nation will be part of an acronym.

 

[Yuzo]

Newt Gingrich isn't a fan of everyone going to college. But in a nation that cannot fathom everyone should have healthcare, it would make sense they would be against higher learning. If economic growth is measured by the lack of education, within a generation or two, this nation will be part of an acronym.

more empty fluff from you