So you arent close wirh him but you know the ins and outs of who he's heard back from and who he's still waiting on?

It is objectively a good school, and me going there has nothing to do with this conversation. I just said I went there to demonstrate that I actually know about the school and its scholarships.

It may be onjectively a good schopl, but uts yiur ssubjective opinion youve used for arguing the biys' intwligence. It is a good school in your opinion and thus in your opinion wouldn't let dumbies in. The evidence says they would.

I am also entitled to judge, and that does not make me "desperate to defend them".

No, you being desperaye to defend them shows you're desperate to defend them. It's a self evident quality.

And what do you mean, do they get a pass?

You're saying it was just one bad decision because it was fatal. Had they instead been driving drunk and taken a bystander with them would it still be naive, youthful indiscretions, or would it be rightly called criminal stupidity then?

and encourage teens to learn from their mistake.

"Dont be a fucking idiot like these guys." Give em a yearbook page.

would have more respect for your opinion if you had better reasons to back it up.

"I knew them, therefore they're not subject to being judged by the ultimately fatal stupidity which ended their lives in a crumpled heap at the known gate on the track that they worked at the previous years."

Actiins have consequences, this one was easily foreseeable, especially given their apparent intimate knowledge of the park. There was a death at the winter Olympics on one of these tracks in vancouver, he died with the correct equipmemt. Using the wrong equipment on an already deadly sporting facility that youre tresspassing on after dark is compounding so many stupid aspects that it was virtually guarantees to end in a body bag