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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS plays the bagpipes and spent one summer in France working as an "intern" to a chocolatier.  He also wrote a very funny essay about just being a "just nice guy".  I swear this got him into every top school he applied to so far.

It is getting more and more about the "hook" for our equally privileged and smart  kids.  [/quote]

What were his grades?[/quote]

His grades and scores were both good (3.8 unweighted GPA and high SATs) But a lot of kids have those scores and get rejected.  The guy slated to be the valedictorian of his class got rejected by one of the schools that accepted DS and he had an 800 in math!    [/quote]

NP here and I think your kid stood out and the essay definitely put him over the top.  The admissions people read so many crap essays about the immigrant-deceased-grandfather and what he taught our white privileged kid that they probably stood up and applauded the essay that made them smile from a kid who wasn't pretending to be anything more than exactly what he is.

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