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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As an interviewer, I'm not seeing anyone get in. But I am seeing a pattern to those who don't. I see a lot of kids who might charitably be described - I'm sure their parents would describe them on DCUM - as well-rounded. They participate in a few clubs. But that's just it, they participate. Very few are officers let alone leaders.

My hypothesis, which I'd love to see tested, is that just being president of a couple things and having a decent talent would probably be enough to get you in. I'm an interviewer, so I don't know anything. But if you have a kid who's interested in Ivies, make sure she tries to actually lead something. Otherwise you'll be here whining about how "well-rounded kids don't have a chance."[/quote]

This is old news.  The ivies used to want well rounded kids but that time is long gone.  Today they demand demonstrated excellence in a single field of endeavor.  Presumably this makes their socially engineered class easier to assemble. [/quote]

Know a decent number of otherwise unhooked kids who got into Harvard and Yale.  None of them demonstrated excellence as you posit.  This is just what parents tell themselves.  It's not the case - those kids are not plentiful enough to fill one university class, much less eight.[/quote]

Your post, and others like it are cruel. How well do you personally know these kids? Maybe they had a life-changing experience which was the subject of their essay. You just shouldn’t judge in this way. Maybe their teacher wrote an amazing LoR. You have no idea, truly. [/quote]

You have no reading comprehension skills.   I know them all well enough to know that they did not do newspaper worthy things or demonstrated excellence in a single field.  They were all kids who excelled in school and did interesting but completely normal ECs.  Which means that these other factors including perhaps some that you mentioned helped. [/quote]

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