“Of those, just over 200 got jobs, for a 2% acceptance rate,” Frommer reports. “Meanwhile, Harvard’s acceptance rate was 7% this past year… 29,000 applications for about 2,000 admissions.”
Frommer reports, “This may put new meaning into the term ‘Genius Bar.'”
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This is what recession can do to the job market… Hopefully, out of those 10,000 candidates, the 200 that were hired really had the Mac, as well as people skills needed to properly represent Apple’s corporate philosophy.
Harvard should consider a name change – iHarvard.
The rejects can always head over to the MS Store.
At the 14th street store an employee of apple didn’t know the difference between firewire 400 and 800.
I agree, I hope those 200 know what they are selling.
@January 24, 1984
I wonder how many applied at the Microjunk Store? 1 Million?
aside from SATs, you also need to pay $75 admissions fee just to apply to Harvard.
anybody and everybody, especially in today’s economy probably tossed in an application for a choice retail job like the Apple Store, it cost nothing to try so why not? so the 10k number and ratio of actual hires is kind of meaningless in comparison
It’s not how many applied. It’s who you know.
@Jubei
“I wonder how many applied at the Microjunk Store? 1 Million?”
Well, Microsoft has a 90% market share, so if 10,000 applied at Apple, that means that 90,000 applied at the Microsoft store, right?
Of course, Microsoft hired ALL of their 90,000 applicants and promptly began firing them due to the economic downturn’s negative impact on their bottom line…
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I was told this when I applied and got a job at the Apple Store in Cincinnati a few years ago.
I was offered a job there, but I told him that I hated retail after working as a MG.
Though the writer means that Apple’s standards are very high and we know this to be true always, he obviously doesn’t have a clue and shows his that his yardstick is a toy at best.
But, accepting that Apple’s standards are high , as well any Apple user appreciates, anyone applying for a job at Apple should realize that unless they can really cut it they should probably not even bother to start with.
We don’t do windows.
I’ve noticed over the years that the Mac platform has always had a way of making people feel like computer geniuses, but that Windows had a tendancy to make people feel like idiots.
10,000 people in the relatively small (albeit populous) area of Manhattan felt qualified enough with their computer knowlede to be able to help others. I think that’s a testament to the quality of the Macintosh experience, and by extention, the lack of quality of the Windows user experience.
@January 24, 1984
They could pose as customers!
75 fee for Harvard is meaningless, compared to the cost of board and tuition there.
The SAT score also not a very high bar for anyone who any serious interest in going to a 4 year college.
I have a friend who recently got hired at the Roseville Sacramento Apple store (fairly new store). They had a 3 interview process, starting with a group interview. My friend got hired after the 3rd interview.
They asked my friend about experiences in Europe on the 3rd interview. My friend had been to school in Europe for awhile studying design. The store Manager was from England, where my friend stayed and studied.
My friend had retail experience and studied design, and had used Macs and whole family had used Macs for awhile.
They are probably very very picky and my friend got really lucky but is very qualified, and young and good looking. Hopefully works out well!
George W. Bush has a Harvard MBA. We can agree to disagree about his intelligence and decision making skills, but it was pretty obvious he lacked a good command of American English.
So much for the value of a Harvard (and Yale) education.
@qka, sadly the President makes just as many verbal errors and gaffes as his predecessor. This is strangely not important to the media when the President is a Democrat.
The general media will always attempt to make a Republican candidate appear less educated. They ran this tactic on Dan Quayle when he misspelled potato and never let it drop. Once the media starts the entertainment industry sub-division starts and you never hear or see anything else whether it’s President Ford tripping, or George Bush pronouncing nuclear incorrectly.
We saw it again with Sarah Palin. They leapt upon that woman like a pack of rabid dogs on raw meat and never let up. They still haven’t.
Barrack Obama though? He generates mistakes as much as the others but the media is completely silent. No attempts are made to make him look stupid. He can mistakenly claim that there are 57 states in the country as he did in Oregon… silence from the media.
He can accidentally state that 10,000 people died in Kansas tornadoes, but when the real number is 12, not a peep from the media.
He can forget which city he’s in, as he did often on the campaign trail, and nothing, not a peep.
This isn’t even the serious stuff. He’ll give two speeches back to back, in one claiming that Iran is some little country with no serious defense budget that poses us no threat, and the very next day say that’s he’s made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave.
Any Republican making these sorts of mistakes would be skewered. Easily.
@ Deus Ex Technica
Great post.
Now that you mention it… so true.
TheloniusMac:
Your posts are always very intelligent and well argued, so for a moment there I thought someone hijacked your user ID to post some republican political rant. I’m still wondering if it isn’t the case.
Surely you simply cannot compare the two people when it comes to their ability to speak English.
Three volumes of “Bushisms” were published during his presidency. These bushisms include many words that heretofore never existed in the English language (misunderestimated, decider, among countless others). Even without the new words, thoughts uttered by him were often incomprehensible, inappropriate, or of opposite or different meaning than intended.
What you quoted about the current sitting US president seem like mistakes of his speechwriters that he didn’t himself catch, or he simply misspoke and would have easily corrected himself if given a chance (if even necessary at all; oftentimes, it is obvious that a person meant something else when they said something).
I used to tour with a band. One summer, we had 40 performances in 30 cities. More than half of the time, I had no idea what city we were in. I know I’m not president material, but it doesn’t take much to make you forget where you are when you’re exhausted and under pressure.
Surely, you didn’t compare the two in order to make some point?
@theloniousMac
Poor, persecuted Republicans. Sure, Quayle was wrongly blasted for the potato issue. Alas, I have no sympathy. The GOP indoctrination includes highly selective memory in combination with an extremely high threshold of hypocrisy and a metric ton of obstructionism. Bush was a classic – he made personal attacks and then hid behind his “no personal attacks” shield. And the current crop of GOPers are far more concerned about opposing anything advocated by Democrats than they are doing the right thing for the country.
Let me be clear. During the past few decades Republicans have not demonstrated fiscal responsibility. In addition, they have exhibited a cowardly aversion to effectively addressing the major issues of our country. The half-baked, Bush-backed travesty of a prescription drug program must have been written by the insurance industry in combination with the pharmaceutical industry. The destruction of our public lands and undermining of our clean air and clean water policies was criminal. Overspending in combination with tax cuts is not sound fiscal policy. And Republicans have no basis from which to claim a moral superiority.
Did I miss anything? Oh, yes. Please keep your toadying Republican blather off of an Apple-focused forum. You stop posting, and I’ll stop responding.
@theloniousMac
All opinions are equal, whether you graduated Harvard, toured with a band, whatever, just so long as you don’t step outta line. Got that?