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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I alum interviewed for Princeton last year and it was a depressing bloodbath when decisions came out. Several spectacular candidates I thought would be admitted were not even wait listed. These were amazing kids. I do think it helps to be spectacular AND a first gen college student or URM or SES-disadvantaged student. Also, having a well developed specific intellectual interest in the humanities is good, because from what I saw there are so many STEM focused students.

None of this is meant to deter her! But have other options she likes too.[/quote]

The STEM candidates would also be helped by having a long term focused interest in a specific area.  STEM is too general.[/quote]

I may have gotten into HYP as an unhooked student because, among other things, I had a very specialized interest in a specific STEM area and worked in that field and took advanced classes in it. It's one that is kind of "gross' to most people so they might have thought hey this kid probably isn't faking this.[/quote]

Isn't that specialized interest  a hook?[/quote]

Perhaps?

I just didn't mean the "big" hooks people talk about--I wasn't a URM, I wasn't a legacy, I wasn't rich, I wasn't a recruited athlete, I didn't win national-level competitions, I wasn't from a rural state.[/quote]

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