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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What are the things?[/quote]

There are many facets of it but if I had to put a label on it, I’d call it “strategy.”  Knowing your kid’s strengths and weaknesses and matching them to a school that values the strengths and that your kid likes. Approaching this as a game is a mind shift that pays dividends. [/quote]

Interesting... what were your kids strengths, and which schools did they apply to?
How were you able to identify which ones value those strengths?[/quote]

Just found out that my nephew is heading to one of the Ivies next week (not Brown, Cornell or Dartmouth or Columbia).  According to him, he had neither a good grade (3.5 GPA with two AP classes) or SAT score (1400).  He is, however, making a lot of money as a youtuber and tiktok influencer.  He has about 500K subscribers on youtube and 200K of followers on tiktok.  He didn't have any hooks or ECs in high school.  I guess Ivies prefer him over someone with perfect SAT and GPAs.[/quote]

What you are describing is a hook. It is a lot of work to get 500,000 subscribers on YouTube. This is something he spends significant amounts of time doing. I would also argue that his grades and SATs are quite respectable.[/quote]

elite schools are looking for return on investment through endowments and that requires leadership and this is exactly what is required to get something like that

That's also why legions of asians with high stats are rejected.

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