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a typical Zoomer on the apps is getting rejected by, and rejecting,
more prospective partners in a week than a typical married boomer has in their entire life.
... Ella, a 20-year-old from Allentown, Pennsylvania, applied to 12 colleges and got rejected from 10. "I had so much hubris and unfounded confidence," she says. "I just thought, well, I'll only want to go to college if I can get into a 'prestigious school.' They ask, 'Why us?' obviously, and I couldn't tell them why besides it's Harvard." In a Substack post she published before her high school graduation, she described how at odds her tenfold rejection was with her belief in simply working hard to succeed. "I thought that I was going to be someone," she wrote.
... many Zoomers apply to more jobs in a day than many lucky Boomers have in their lives. ...