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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]"how my sport changed my life."[/quote]

My high stats (3.98 GPA/4.53 wGPA/35 ACT, full IB) class of 22 wrote an essay like this (and his sport really did change his life), which I thought was pretty good, and he did not get into most of the selective schools he applied to (Yale, Harvard, Williams (legacy, but didn't apply ED), Amherst, Duke, UVa, MIT).  Obviously not getting in to any of those could just be luck of the draw, but I wonder if his essay ended up hurting him.[/quote]

Unfortunately, I bet it did. In the case of my nephew though, we are talking about the top schools, but also schools a level below that, like Emory, Tulane, etc[/quote]

Haaa...while those are "ranked a level below" they still have single digit or low teen acceptance rates (Emory: 13.4%, Tulane 9.6%).  They are still REACH schools for everyone.

I would love to see a list of the school your nephew did not get into .  I'm guessing he only applied to 1 safety and the rest were reaches and maybe 1-2 high targets.  If so, the issue is not 100% the essay, but largely the fact applying to more reaches does not increase your chances of acceptances....it's still a lottery ticket[/quote]

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