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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ED to Dartmouth.  deferred and then waitlisted and then denied. Sibling applicant but sibling is no longer at Dartmouth (just graduated and very strong student while there).  Very strong applicant.  Wrote a LOCI, had a teacher write an additional rec and it was a "this is the best student of my 20 year career" letter (teacher shared the letter) but nothing moved the needle.

Got into 2 Ivies RD and 2 other top 20 schools and 2 top 10 liberal arts schools.

frankly, f-you Dartmouth. We know 2 other kids that had a similar experience this year.  all were strung along for 9 months.  We all would have welcomed a denial in December over what happened.[/quote]

Not my kid, but I know a Yale sibling - utterly qualified in every respect - who was denied from Yale REA (not deferred - flat out denied). Got into Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, and at least 5 other T20 schools RD. [/quote]

These experiences and many, many others across the board (for any candidate who is qualified to attend their "target" university) convince me that admissions officers are simply not reading each applicant's file correctly, just because they don't have the time. That's the lottery part of admissions: the AO skimming your file and not remembering the salient points.

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