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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone enlighten me?  I've been interviewing for 2 years now and haven't had a single kid get in. They all seem amazing - what does it take to get in these days???  Is it just truly exceptional kids or connected kids or are my interviewees exaggerating their grades/scores (which I don't get to see)?[/quote]

I've been interviewing for 12 years. I've had 6 students admitted over that time. My last admit was last year. That student applied early, I'm assuming had the scores, had fantastic leadership, and a really unique way the student spent the summer after junior year which I'm sure was the focus of the student's essay. The student was also super easy to talk to about a wide range of subject. I actually wrote in my report that the student reminded me a lot of myself at that age and would have been someone I would have wanted as a friend and classmate while at Dartmouth.  No "hooks." Not a legacy, not a recruited athlete, not an URM.

Prior to that I've had two recruited athletes admitted, none of the legacies, and two URMs admitted. Of those, the athletes were always ED. I had one other non hooked student admitted back in 2005. This year I interviewed a stellar candidate RD with a couple hooks URM and first college attendee in the family and I was very surprised the student wasn't admitted.

So in my experience you need to be an ED recruited athlete, a highly desirable URM or if you have no hooks, commit ED. [/quote]

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