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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been a Harvard interviewer for 20 years. Prodigiousness is important, but motivated self starter is more important. Also, a few non academic things will keep you out: PITA parents, arrogance, and an inability to get along with people.[/quote] How do you find out whether parents are PITA? (short of showing up to the interview with their kid)[/quote] You see it less often these days, but every once in a while, you get a parent who makes phone calls to attempt to influence the process. It's something 99.9 percent of parents would never consider doing, and it's pretty much instant rejection. Your main job as a parent is not to do anything that would imply that you will call and harass the Nobel Laureate, wooed away from MIT at great expense, about Buffy's O-Chem grade. [/quote]
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