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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Legacy 
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4.0 UW
National award
Nationally ranked in EC
Published author
Captain varsity sport
Devoted teachers/fantastic recs[/quote]

Forgetting the legacy bump for the moment, things like national awards and published worked are differentiating.   [b]If you are only accepting 1 student out if every 25 applications and half of those are accomplished writers, how do you choose one?  [/quote]
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We'll never know, they don't talk about those things.  I guess the best way to figure it out is to do the next level research and figure out the trends of the published writers accepted and see what they like.[/quote]

The question was how are you going to choose one writer out of a dozen?   One that has the discipline, maturity and talent to go through the process of having a piece published could arguably be a good criteria.   [/quote]

Not how I read it...I read the question as how do you choose 12 published authors out of 25 applicants?  Hence my response, it is subjective.  [/quote]

Poster meant 12 of the applications show quality writing ....not that they are all published.n. If they all have published pieces than you need to find other ways to choose.   Not every well written student can get a place.

But there are many other places than the ivy league to hone writing talent or math talent or other talents as well.[/quote]

Unless you are PP you don't know what they meant.  The correlation was "accomplished" writer in the response to "published writer" in the original post.  Not interested in arguing with you.  My point stands, it is subjective as you acknowledged.[/quote]

Yes.  I am the poster.  If one of the applicants is published and none of the others are published, that could be possibly be a reasonable differentiating factor.

And if course it is subjective but I really dont see it as a random lottery as some always suggest.

I have multiple kids and only one was interested or accomplished enough to pursue a really elite college.  The kids there are intimidating.  Many seem to have national level accomplishments and prizes in their various fields and various countries.   It does not seem random.

But my other have their own path and accomplishments in their own right and are pursuing higher education at fine institutions but not tippy too level ones.[/quote]

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