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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMe57FM2M/
Into Cornell with an 1130. [/quote]

Gosh what a talented and original kid! Exactly someone who should be admitted to an Ivy, scores be damned.[/quote]

I'll repeat: Look at the tiktok prior to this one, which lists all her criteria and shows her portfolio, and then come back here and make the case she is not qualified.[/quote]

Yeah notice how no one is jumping in on this one?

Maybe this young woman, despite her unfortunate choice of tiktok (which might be making her a famous future designer as we argue this) is exactly what test optional was supposed to permit?

And before you jump on the tiktok quote, remember that all the beat poets got famous because one of their buddies murdered a stalker.  Yes, Burroughs, Keroac, Ginsburg.... all geniuses but got their break by "no publicity is bad publicity".   So maybe she is smarter than we give her credit for here.

PS: the guy who committed the murder is the father of Caleb Carr who wrote "The Alienist". [/quote]
I haven't seen the tiktok and have no opinion on whether she is qualified.  Let's assume she is - in a test-required scenario, the admission committee can choose to overlook a low score.  In prior years, they did overlook low scores for some portion (the lower 10%, say?), just not for the whole class.[/quote]

And how do you know they overlooked low scores for the whole class?[/quote]

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