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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS is friendly with a kid who is one of the top 10 chess players in the country for his age. Near perfect GPA, SATs, and a boatload of other fairly impressive ECs. Advanced 3+ years in math, was taking college courses as a sophomore. Got rejected from Harvard. (Did get into Yale, but still - what else was Harvard looking for?)[/quote]

Math geek/chess player is one of the most generic types of smart boy.  Has been true for centuries.[/quote]

It's unfortunate we don't value this type of student.    Those who study, do activities, and positively contribute to their community.   Watching the news this spring....take your pick.
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I think the point was that this profile is presumably very common in the application pool, making it more difficult to stand out. Not they are not valued.   The schools in question likely have many students that are similar to this profile, but they also want musicians, artists, humanities focused, athletes, etc.

We dont know the students intended major or the specifics of EC interests, but in this case Harvard decided they had this profile covered by other candidates they felt were a better fit and/or met the specific institutional priorities that had that year.

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