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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Locked out of T40 here.  If I had to guess, due to the following:
- CS major
- majority student
- magnet school
- truthful ECs that were all STEM-related and did not stand out
- Common varsity sport
- [b]wrote own essay that highlighted their personality but was not a sob story[/b] [/quote]

I think people overstate writing a sob story.  First, not everyone in T40 has a “sob story” so clearly that isn’t a criteria.  Second, not everyone that has faced hardship chooses to write about it for their college essay.  Likely to be a credit to the application they would have needed to process the situation, be willing to expose that vulnerability, write it in a way that connects to the reader and still make the case on why they would be an asset to the that college community all while being authentic and in the voice of a teenager. Not everyone with a “sob story” wants to or is prepared to do that.

I will never forget someone was going off on one of message boards about a T40 school that asked for an essay about community and said this was clearly about being URM and their kids was being set up to not get in etc.  and people were like um my kid isn’t an ethnic minority and got in and wrote their essay about being in a community with other musicians and tied that back to x and someone else was like well my non-URM kid wrote about cooking and community potlucks in our small town and tied it to y. 
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