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Anonymous
| OP is asking for the special sauce recipe. Sounds like no one knows it or is willing to share it. Time to move along. |
Anonymous
+2000 Stats are irrelevant. They're all perfect. |
Anonymous
| I think we established that stats don’t explain ivy admissions. In a couple of cases I know from previous years, two kids won national level math competitions, one started a successful and popular club at his school. |
Anonymous
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Legacy 3.9 GPA unweighted Accomplished musician Great recommendations White Accepted at Harvard |
Anonymous
Legacy is a key word. We know from the Harvard law suit that this would do the trick assuming relatively high stats and decent ECs. Harvard is probably unique in this but who knows. Maybe someone should sue Princeton and Yale to find out |
Anonymous
I know someone who got in with a 2.7, so ... not so perfect. Just really tall and strong and good looking with an enticing pedigree. |
Anonymous
You mean a recruiter athlete? |
Anonymous
True, these are underwhelming stats, there is a deep hook somewhere. |
Anonymous
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+ 4.0 UW National award Nationally ranked in EC Published author Captain varsity sport Devoted teachers/fantastic recs |
Anonymous
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There aren’t many responses because RD acceptances aren’t out yet.
Ask again in April. |
Anonymous
Forgetting the legacy bump for the moment, things like national awards and published worked are differentiating. If you are only accepting 1 student out if every 25 applications and half of those are accomplished writers, how do you choose one? |
Anonymous
We'll never know, they don't talk about those things. I guess the best way to figure it out is to do the next level research and figure out the trends of the published writers accepted and see what they like. |
Anonymous
The question was how are you going to choose one writer out of a dozen? One that has the discipline, maturity and talent to go through the process of having a piece published could arguably be a good criteria. |
Anonymous
Not how I read it...I read the question as how do you choose 12 published authors out of 25 applicants? Hence my response, it is subjective. |
Anonymous
Poster meant 12 of the applications show quality writing ....not that they are all published.n. If they all have published pieces than you need to find other ways to choose. Not every well written student can get a place. But there are many other places than the ivy league to hone writing talent or math talent or other talents as well. |