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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“When you don’t have test scores, the students who suffer most are those with high grades at relatively unknown high schools, the kind that rarely send kids to the Ivy League,” Deming, a Harvard economist, said. “The SAT is their lifeline.”[/quote]

My senior fits this definition and I advised them to avoid Ivy League schools in their list as a result. So far it looks like they used the right application strategy.[/quote]

But there are other lifelines, we call them hooks.

- Star athlete

- URM

- Geographically diverse (speaking of nobody from my school attends Yale)

- 1st Generation student

- High financial need (Ivies are to their credit fantastically generous)

Except you can’t pay Princeton Review $1000 to get better at any of these.

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They have been recruited D3 in one sport but the others are not our reality.

I look at overlooking Ivys and the like as choosing reality. It’s actually quite nice over there, too.[/quote]

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