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[quote=Anonymous]I haven’t read all the books about Ivy admissions but I recall going an Ivy years ago when the admissions directors were first starting to talk about wanting kids with a “passion,” as opposed to just well-rounded kids from St. Grottlesex or the likes of Whitman.

At the time it struck me as an effort on their part to just make the process more opaque, since they were trying to open up their schools to more students and fend off alumni angry that their perfectly acceptable kids weren’t guaranteed admission. The intentions may have been good, but of course it’s fed the mystique about “what it takes” to get into an Ivy and led to its own abuses, such as a cottage industry of college consultants in the like.

Personally I was happy to have gone to an Ivy during a period when the school was opening up to a more diverse set of students (more kids from public schools and more minorities), but still wasn’t expecting applicants to put on a complete dog-and-pony show.  It was a nice four years, and I’m sure that having an Ivy degree (actually, two) has helped me professionally, but the schools don’t define me, nor was I especially interested in having my own kids attend them. [/quote]

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