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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's how it works.  Admissions tags the front of your kids' files with two figures:  test scores and GPA, noting high school/weighted, not weighted.  Each file gets no more than 6 minutes of attention at a SLAC.  If the GPA and test score isn't sufficiently high, they move it into the "reject" pile.  Usually two or three officers read each application just in case someone has missed something (2 min. per file x 3).  Your goal is to get your kid to the point where they even open the file and find out your son has great letters of rec., or is something the college would like to have on its campus due to something disclosed in letters of rec. and personal essays.  [/quote]11:18 here.  If what you say is true, then those were 6 minutes of unusual interest in my son's file or they thought the GPA was sufficiently high warranting an additional look.  Not saying what you state is not true, just wondering what the three interviewers saw in their respective 2 minutes that warranted admission to several good colleges.

Even though my son was admitted and it's now water under the bridge, if what you say has merit I'm now curious what prompted them to move past the 'B' average to the essays.[/quote]

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