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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]the thing about this that makes me mad is when college AOs say, "We have people call our school to complain than X kid got in when Y kid did not.  But the thing is, they don't know why they were admitted, they didn't see their application or read their essay. We know what we're doing. We dont make mistakes." (The Dartmouth dean says this a lot).

I'd never call a school to rat a kid out, but .. no,  Dartmouth, you don't know a kid better than his/her classmates do. Some of these kids have known each other for 12 years .. and you spent 12 minutes reading their app. There are certainly things on the application that their classmates don't know, of course. But they also know that little Larla was not the lead author on that journal, did not start a NFP, didn't play varsity tennis,  and did not organize the clothing drive that was the essay topic. There was no clothing drive.

THat's the part that bugs me.[/quote]

Why are you so concerned about other kids’ applications that you have not seen. Your school sees the applications fyi so again so bizarre to even read this thread.[/quote]

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