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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ED to Dartmouth.  deferred and then waitlisted and then denied. Sibling applicant but sibling is no longer at Dartmouth (just graduated and very strong student while there).  Very strong applicant.  Wrote a LOCI, had a teacher write an additional rec and it was a "this is the best student of my 20 year career" letter (teacher shared the letter) but nothing moved the needle.

Got into 2 Ivies RD and 2 other top 20 schools and 2 top 10 liberal arts schools.

frankly, f-you Dartmouth. We know 2 other kids that had a similar experience this year.  all were strung along for 9 months.  We all would have welcomed a denial in December over what happened.[/quote]

Not my kid, but I know a Yale sibling - utterly qualified in every respect - who was denied from Yale REA (not deferred - flat out denied). Got into Harvard, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, and at least 5 other T20 schools RD. [/quote]

These experiences and many, many others across the board (for any candidate who is qualified to attend their "target" university) convince me that admissions officers are simply not reading each applicant's file correctly, just because they don't have the time. That's the lottery part of admissions: the AO skimming your file and not remembering the salient points.[/quote]

This is an odd take. AOs are very clear that they have far more applicants who are fully qualified than they have room for. It tracks that some people would get in to some programs and not others, that some would get in to multiple programs, and that some wouldn’t get into any, even if all of them are fully qualified.[/quote]

PP you replied to. Hmmm... you've got to read between the lines. AOs cannot admit that they're overwhelmed. It's obvious that there are far more qualified applicants than seats, no one's denying that. But sometimes admissions just do not make sense - sometimes one applicant who is less qualified (and isn't an athlete, hasn't donated a ton of money, and doesn't play an instrument the orchestra absolutely needs, has no hooks at all) get picked over a more qualified or hooked candidate. Overall, admissions only make sense when you factor in human error.

You will get any AO to admit this. But after years of reading and thinking about this, I am convinced this is true.
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I thought most schools give legacies an extra review exactly for this reason - to make sure they don’t get lost in the shuffle (human error).[/quote]

Exactly. It's obvious. I don't know why some posters insist strenuously that an admissions officer can do not wrong. They have to read thousands of applications in a short amount of time. What could go wrong!?! :-)

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