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In the world of kids I know, the ones who were admitted to H/Y/P were true superstars. Not just perfect gpa, perfect sat and the most rigorous classes (and when I say most rigorous, I really mean it - not just thru MV but also took all of the english and social studies APs, took multiple hard science APs, and finished world language AP junior year). But also excelled in other things - music, science competitions, quizbowl or debate. These were the 2-3 kids in a class of 500 who you “knew” would one day go to H/Y/P. There are of course other students every year who get into Penn,Columbia, Dartmouth - these kids are also terrific students but don’t have that “extra” and so there are a lot more of them so it actually seems less predictable to me why Lola got into Penn and Larla
did not.

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Respectfully, I think this post is just flat wrong. The poster can't predict who gets admitted to HYP or Penn, Columbia, and Dartmouth. Those "other things" listed hardly do anything to separate applicants at that elite level. You wouldn't "know" those kids would one day go to HYP even if they were legacies who grew up wearing HYP gear.[/quote]

I don't think the posters is talking about legacies wearing gear.   That kid that is a natural born scholar and is so academically gifted.   Not the ones that wear gear and talk about the ivy league.  The ones that talk about physics, never and end up at MIT or something because it's the obvious place for them. [/quote]

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