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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]my kid made it into yale EA. She has a talent on the national level, is 1st in her class, took a ton of APs and got great LOR etc. 1500 SAT. She is in a group chat with accepted students and the GC is 250+ ppl so far. They all have "something". High grades and tests are not enough, not even close.

FY!- we make 175K HHI, have another in college and our total cost is 18,979. The ivy league is extremely generous. [/quote]

Congratulations. My kid is at Yale now and loves it. For Yale what I notice is that they select happy, self-assured, non-competitive kids, just wait until you start meeting her classmates. They appreciate what their classmates bring to the table. Maybe it is the same at other schools but I stopped thinking about it as being a "lottery" there is definitely a method to the madness. They really think hard about what each kid brings to the community, stats are a bar but the least important IMO. [/quote]

It is a managed lottery.  I've interviewed for a HYPS school for over 20 years (probably about 75 kids total), and from what I've seen, which admittedly is a very small sample, you can establish a bar over which people need to be.  However, of the group that is over the bar, and it's a significant portion, I see no rhyme or reason for why one kid got in over the other.   With the qualifications of kids these days, it is impossible to make a meaningful distinction between them.  
  
And I don't believe for a second that squishy criteria like that cited above is that differentiator.  The admissions office cannot determine that any of their applicants, whom they will likely never meet, are happy, self-assured or non-competitive.   (I also don't believe that 'non-competitive' is a word I would ever associate with anyone attending any Ivy League school or equivalent). This is a human process and, as such, inherently unreliable.  A tremendous amount of luck is involved. If it wasn't, you'd see the same kid who got into Cornell get into Penn and vice versa.  That doesn't happen on a consistent basis.

If your kid got in, great. That's wonderful news.  Celebrate your good fortune, because for most kids, some amount of good fortune is involved.
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