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[quote=Anonymous]These schools could literally fill up an entire entering class with valedictorians and perfect stats, but they do not.  That informs us, as applicants, that they are looking for something beyond simply perfect grades and test scores.  When we talk about all the valedictorians and perfect ACTs rejected we miss the point.

Also, I am fairly certain that the valedictorians with perfect SAT/ACT scores  and other achievements who apply to every Ivy are being admitted to at least one, and probably several.  I am not a legacy, but is an old and tired trope that we should be stressed because somehow as a perfect candidate we have no hope. That is simply not true.  And in the end does it really matter if whether the school is Amherst,  Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, Georgetown, Penn, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, Williams, or one of many other excellent schools?

To the PP, please read college confidential to read about the stretch applicants many of these schools get.  The 34,000 applicants to any one of these schools are not all valedictorians they are often just ordinary students who are reaching for the stars, including many legacy applicants who do not get in.[/quote]

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