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[quote=Anonymous]Down the reddit rabbit hole this morning. SO much food for thought: "Former AO here at two top schools. This is generally true, but having great character in addition to good-everything-else needs just a bit more added to its footnote. A lot, if not most, of this process also depends on our priorities and on context (your region, specifically). When I bring any student to committee, I need solid reasons to back up why I think a student is admissible. A great character is not enough to back up a TO student in committee... usually. If the student has, at least in this example, good stats, strong ECs that impact and involvement, and we can feel the intellectual vitality and character come off the page, relative to everyone else in the current pool, then said student has a strong chance anywhere that is TO. Standing out from the pack is certainly the key takeaway, not necessarily a strong character. So I don't know if I'd say this is truly what is up with AOs. Reading and evaluating apps has a lot of moving parts. General success into a college is largely going to depend on a large variety of factors here. My experience as a counselor now is still relatively the same: the students that get in more often than not really depends heavily on those contextual factors and if you stand up well to it all. You move further, certainly, with great character." https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/1i4pktc/comment/m7xnpg3[/quote]
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