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[quote=Anonymous]RE spark.  It's comparatively rare and it's obvious.  That said, I do wonder how admissions officers detect it.  Do they rely on HS teachers? Can they trust interviewers?

Don't know if the only kid I've interviewed whom I'd put in this category got into the school I interviewed her for.  She did end up at Harvard though, so certainly someone noticed.  Then again, her paper credentials were stellar as well.

But I agree that the stakes don't feel that high to me, especially when we're talking about affluent kids from elite private schools and well-educated families.  Plenty of places to get a great undergraduate education these days.  They don't need to go to college at Harvard, Yale, or Princeton -- they're already set up for success.  Not in my self-interest, but I'd rather see HYP take the kids for whom such an education would be life-transforming.  And that's one of the things that's depressing about the article -- doesn't seem like that's Princeton's approach.

The other things that's depressing (and that resonates with what I see around me) is the kind of self-sacrificial motherhood this model seems built around.  [/quote]

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