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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Other than Legacy/Athlete/URM - any DMV admits at all? Looking at our school, this seems to take up 100 percent of the cases. [/quote]
Not to re-open the debate that was going on earlier, but my DC was accepted rea to Yale this year. Not legacy, white/asian, not an athlete. Goes to a relatively good public school in DC. None of the other ivy/t25 early admits there were hooked either. [/quote]

Same for us. Kid in at another Ivy early. White. My other kid was '22, and 4 of 5 admitted to their Ivy were white/Asian and I don’t think had any hooks. Neither of mine did. Public magnet school.[/quote]

Well a 4.5 and 1600 isn’t enough to get in so what made them stand out?

For the kids I know, it was ROTC and being 50% -100% URM. [/quote]

For mine, it was a mix of arts and stem. Excellent arts ECs plus awards in stem and arts (in 3 areas of arts), high GPA/scores and magnet curriculum. 3 strong arts portfolios.

Other kid also had mix of arts and stem with international awards in both. Also, some other unique ECs and distinct perspective in writing.  2 strong arts portfolios. High scores and GPA.

For others we know, 1 had music w/ decent awards but oversubscribed instrument, but also had good stem awards. Another was ranked in a sport. Another had some highly ranked stem awards. All with high scores and GPAs.

Also know another one in early with humanities awards in humanities magnet and strong arts portfolio. Likely high scores and GPA. 
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URM for your kid(s) and/or the others? [/quote]

No. If you look at the chain of posts, you'll see that my initial point is that most of the kids we know admitted are white/Asian.[/quote]

I'm not sure why people are so quick to target URM kids as [b]"taking"[/b] spots and either being [b]"less qualified"[/b] or somehow more advantaged or both.  If you've ever been on an Ivy campus, you'll see how underrepresented URMs are. If you dare to interact with some of them, you'll likely see how intelligent and engaging they are, like the other highly qualified students on campus. [/quote]

No one said that.  You are projecting as you always do when you post this point.[/quote]

Sure they did. It's fairly frequent in various degrees of subtleties (or not so subtleties) but sometimes gets deleted by Jeff when overtly egregious.

This is a valid point that I happened to post this time, but there are many others who refuse to let you or other posters denigrate students because they are URMs.[/quote]

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