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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So it now requires for a seventeen year old to cure cancer to get into a decent school?[/quote]

Or escape civil war
Or be first generation to go to college
Or overcome a disability

Or be a recruited athlete
Or be a legacy
Or put your family name on a building

For top 25ish schools, pretty much.  Excellent grades, perfect test scores, leadership and ECs don't cut it[/quote]

Or something else.  I have no idea what.  My kid is not a legacy, not in any of the categories above, is a vanilla UMC kid with more opportunities and privileges than the average person.  She worked hard but so did a million other kids.  She had great academic outcomes and decent ECs but nothing like curing cancer.  She wrote good essays but they were truthful - so she sounded like a teen who had a ton of opportunities.  And yet she got in.  So who knows?[/quote]

Well if she was a top academic recruit without any other support, that is desirable.[/quote]

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