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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Probably the biggest hook is being a faculty kid.[/quote]

I don't think that is true, and not a hook at all schools.

Athletic recruit is easily the biggest hook.[/quote] While true, it’s much harder to be a world class athlete than a good student. [/quote]

Nope.  For HYPS, you can lie and say that your kid is a "great athlete" even if they suck.  Not only that, you can say your parents attended HYPS, even if they didn't.  Happening right now in close in NOVA, for real, sadly. Make a couple mil donation, and done and done. [/quote]

Athletes don’t get admissions hooks based on anything they list in the application.  Outside the Varsity Blues scenario, coaches drive the process by recruiting athletes they think will help the team. If the coach has pull at the school and the kid meets the academic minimums the school sets for athletes, the kid will be admitted regardless of how they described their level on the application (or regardless of almost anything they put in the application as long as they make a half-way decent effort to fill it out). A kid who is not recruited by a coach will get no special credit for playing a sport even if he was, or claims to have been, the captain of a championship winning team. That will count as a decent EC but in no way push the kid into a different admissions box. [/quote]

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