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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There was an old thread on here - but was locked or deleted - on a TJ kid whose profile was reviewed on a podcast - former Yale AO I think.

Eye-opening how brutal the process is.[/quote]

think it was this one. You can see why the TJ kid had a mediocre unconnected application, notwithstanding top stats:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-9A4eyDoG8[/quote]

Does anyone else think the entire process is a load of BS?  [/quote]

In what way? The whole "tell us a story", make yourself compelling, tie everything together and be memorable?

Or something else?[/quote]
It seems like the way a kid is packaged, likely by paid consultants, matters more than the kid's actual abilities.  Distorting your achievements, creating narratives, and talking big matter way too much.  It feels like another incarnation of having your parents create a fake nonprofit that does almost nothing and disappears the moment you're accepted into college.  [/quote]

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