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[quote=pbraverman][quote=Anonymous]Just curious-what factors Contribute to the 90th percentile kids getting rejected? No personality or what?[/quote] To be sure, it's uncommon for kids with very high scores across the board to be turned down at most schools, but it does happen. A bland personality usually isn't a deal-breaker, but a *difficult* personality can be. One girl's essays came off as terrifically arrogant and impressed with her own brilliance. Despite work on them, she wasn't able to change the tone sufficiently, and I suspect her visit didn't offer much evidence to the contrary either. Another applicant, one of the most capable writers I've ever seen, had a father who boasted during an interview about how much s**t he gave his son's old school. I'm not sure why the father thought that would dispose anybody favorably to his son's application, and it didn't. It's hard for a parent to torpedo a 9th-grade application all by himself, but this dad managed to do it.[/quote]
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