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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder if her essays were a red flag?  To write essays about one’s mental health battles to justify Bs seems strange.  She should have written about something that lights her up.  Maybe one of the theater productions or why accounting is not dry to her/what she wants to do with it.

And I am sad that her takeaway was the Bs did her in.

I hope she kills it at ASU![/quote]

Me too.  But, although she was undoubtedly a great student, she was only ranked 23rd in her class.  These schools could select only top SATs pus valedictorian, if they wanted.  So really it isn't surprising that this student or any other high performing student would be rejected.  HYPs can't take all of the students with her level of qualifications.  And for those who think this means the HYPs aren't getting the best students, as the article says, 50% of the acceptances aren't hooked at all.  So what that means is HYP get applications from thousands of kids like her, and they get to pick and choose their absolute favorites from among those.  Those that they choose have something that this student didn't have - including sometimes even better academic credentials, better essays, more interesting accomplishments outside of school, and/or likelihood of interest and success in less popular majors.  What I take away from this isn't that the Ivy league is a farce, but that they must really have some amazing students if they decided to pass on this one (and so many other stellar applicants).[/quote]

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