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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it’s amazing that PP’s daughter is doing so well at Duke, but i also find myself irrationally angry about her getting waitlist elsewhere. Like what could possibly be better than that resume??  I’m an alum interviewer for an ivy and stories like this are the reason i took several years off. It was too depressing to see amazing applicants get rejected or wait listed…[/quote]

I'm an Ivy alum and worked in an Ivy admissions office as a grad student. Sadly, this resume is rather pedestrian among the most elite schools. Keep in mind, though, at the end of the day you only need one acceptance letter. [/quote]

I know about a dozen DMV kids who were admitted to Ivies in the past year and none of them have a resume of this quality.  They are very smart, do well in school but nothing like this.  I know because I have one such kid.

There are plenty of Ivy admits who get in on much less than this girl. 
If I know more than a dozen there are hundreds more.

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Agree, maybe it hurt that she was at TJ and her class rank was a bit lower?  Because H/Y/S still is taking the unhooked kids at the very top of the class at our private with pretty pedestrian extracurriculars comparatively.[/quote]
4.65 is the tippy top at TJ. [/quote]

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