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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know where connected/legacy/big donors’ kids go. How about academic superstars who are unconnected and full pay with top teachers’ recs? This is a kid loved by teachers in the toughest most advanced subjects, asked to be TA where 95% of classes don’t have a student TA, who has 3.9 GPA where no one gets a 4.0. Otherwise unconnected, no sport, not URM, nothing special ECs (head of robotics club, part-time job type stuff). We know it won’t be Ivies, Stanford, MIT, but where? School sends at least 20% to top 10 schools each year, 50% to top 25; we imagine they are mostly legacy. [/quote]

Omg just stop

My kids unhooked from public got into Stanford, MIT, etc..

If you paid for private because of this you are fiscally irresponsible.

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No way unhooked for S and M unless athlete, URM or big competition winners which are all hooks [/quote]

A hook is something that allows an applicant to get accepted with perhaps just average or below average stats for the school and average ECs (other than for the athletes).

Winning a competition isn’t a hook in that sense…I doubt anyone is accepted that also doesn’t have a stellar application and also won Regeneron…or won some writing contest.

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+1. Being a top athlete or winning competitions, especially if you were able to maintain strong grades at a strong HS speak to who you are as a person - hard working, organized, committed, passionate - and not who your parents are and how you were born - legacy, privileged or URM. I and many others have no problems with the former (merit) and a lot of problems with the latter.
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However, athletes at top academic Power 4 schools (Stanford, Duke, Vandy, UVA, Mich, UCLA, etc) are accepted in revenue sports with minimum stats that are far below the average for the schools

You won’t see anything close to that for competition winners.[/quote]

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