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[quote=Anonymous]"Your child has won an intellectual/cultural lottery, Congratulations." While I agree with much the teacher wrote, THIS IS NOT TRUE, and I don't think she meant luck was involved in getting into Columbia. There was no lottery about it. Columbia WANTS your daughter. They chose her over people with better and worse stats, ECs, essays and recs. There is something in her application that stood out, showed initiative or indicated future greatness. They have spent a huge amount of effort figuring out how to find what they WANT in students and in a class. You don't have to understand it, just know it was NOT AN ACCIDENT. I'm not talking about putting extreme faith in experts or "Ivies", I'm saying that there is skill involved in human resources and college ad coms. You need to make sure your DD understands this as well. Of course, you have to get this across without swelling her head, no easy task. Good luck[/quote]
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