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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I disagree with your assumption that the readers took something negative from OP's kid's essays (thereby making it "personal"). A kid can have perfect everything -- including essays -- and still not make the cut because the AOs are in charge of putting together a class, based on many criteria, not just giving a thumbs-up or thumbs-down to an individual based on the perfection or lack thereof of the application. [/quote]

We will have to continue to disagree with each other. And we have different definitions of the word "perfect". If OP's son's application & qualifications were perfect, OP's son would have been admitted.[/quote]

This is just so not how admissions works! This puts the blame on the kid, when it's entirely possible that he's not what the AO wants to make sure there is a well-rounded class (as Duke defines that). Why are you so intent on assuming there must have been something wrong with OP's son's essays? It's entirely possible -- just to choose one variable -- that OP's kid could have gotten in if only he were applying from rural Alaska with the exact same profile otherwise, to check the geographic diversity box. [/quote]

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