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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]High stat DC got into an Ivy this year.
-not a legacy
-not an athlete
-not an URM
-not a faculty kid
-public school (not TJ)
-no crazy national/international awards
Just got super super lucky.[/quote]

Stats and major?[/quote]

1580, 4.6 weighted, Engineering[/quote]

Very impressive, congrats to your DC on getting in for one of the toughest majors. Essays must have been excellent![/quote]

The sad thing is the assumption that a kid with these stats wouldn't normally get in without a hook. Back in the day they would have sailed in![/quote]

Test prep culture has considerably cheapened the value of a 1580. [/quote]

No, 1580 is very hard to achieve prep or not.  
Everybody should study and prepare hard for major test such as SAT, MCAT, BAR exam, Professional Engineer exam, etc.

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No one “preps” for an eye exam. PP was talking about “back in the day,” and back in the day we were told that the SAT was unpreppable. [/quote]

It's unpreppable if you have fooled around for 11 years of fundamental education.

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Back in the day, many kids took Princeton Review/Kaplan SAT prep courses and did great. What are you talking about? Prepping for tests has been around forever.[/quote]

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