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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What you’ll also see happen is colleges become much more dependent on in-person interviews for holistic admissions. A kid who scores a 1450 on his SAT but has a very outgoing personality with a unique ability to “sell himself” will be more attractive to Harvard than the kid with perfect stats who is social awkward. I bet you see more intangibles become more important.

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Lol no, Harvard would not even look at the 1450 SAT kid unless they are URM or a Senator's son. Because the choice for Harvard isn't between a kid with 1450 SAT and outgoing personality vs. a 1600 SAT nerd.

It's between a 1600 SAT with an outgoing personality and a 1600 SAT with academic research done in high school, math olympiad, international programming competitions, etc.

And Harvard would choose the latter every time, because kids with outgoing personalities are a dime a dozen and easily developed. Genuine intelligence is rare and impossible to develop.  [/quote]

Do you think the outgoing kid has no ECs?  Outgoing kids love ECs.  They may not be robotics and olympiads, but they will likely have strong ECs.  It’s what outgoing folks do.

I have brainy introverts and I’m a bit jealous of the outgoing folks.  There is one school that I’m 99% sure my kid did not get into because she is not outgoing.  Just as well, when she visited, she found all of the extroverts exhausting.

The kid with the 1600 and the personality has intelligence, because no amount of prep is getting someone without intelligence a 1600 [/quote]

Not today, getting a 1600 is more common today as the SAT has been made easier.

The point isn't that the outgoing kid isn't intelligent, it's that they aren't as intelligent as a kid with the same scores + host of academic extracurriculars because the latter shows demonstrated academic interest. [/quote][/quote]

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