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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hooks matter more than anything else at the top 20 schools, and especially the Ivies. A kid at the top of the class, with perfect grades and scores and impressive, unique ECs, will almost always lose out to a kid without those things who has a hook.  I heard this so many times but did not fully absorb it without personal experience.[/quote]

This is a false but common narrative on DCUM. Unhooked candidates do not lose out to "less qualified" hooked candidates. They lose out to other academically qualified candidates who align with an institutional priority.

Families refuse to accept that the top schools don't really care about 'peak academics'. Once an academic bar has been reached they care about their priorities which means that 4.0UW with a 1590 isn't any more interesting than 3.95UW with a 1540 in their admissions process. And they are correct, in real life those kids are academically indistinguishable.[/quote]
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I know so many families where the parents only care about the kids getting 1600 on the SATs. They just don’t get it. [/quote]

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