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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mine was rejected at Harvard, accepted to Princeton and Yale (didn't apply to Stanford or MIT).

Like another poster, did the IB programme and science was one of her SL subjects. So she had honors bio 9th, honors chem 10th, IB Envrio SL 11th (and she also took the AP Enviro exam).

For IB, her SLs were Enviro/Maths/Philosophy and her HLs were English/History/French. She sat for the AP exams for almost every IB class she took, and then also took some actual AP classes as a freshman and sophomore. 4.0 UW, 1540 SAT, [b]URM[/b], classical musician, otherwise unhooked. [/quote]

URM with a 4.0 and 1540 is hooked. Surely you know this.[/quote]

That's what "otherwise" means. [/quote]

You can’t be “otherwise” unhooked if you are, in fact, hooked. [/quote]
Except not all hooks are created equal (legacy barely hooked) and there is such a thing as double and triple hooks. If a single hook guaranteed admission, you would be correct. But it doesn’t; it’s not like being pregnant — so you’re wrong.[/quote]

DP. Multiple hooks is better than one. But if you’re hooked, you’re hooked. All those stats the PP quoted about their DD cannot be taken out of the context of the student being hooked. If the OP is not similarly hooked, the information is significantly less useful to them. 
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Some of us have similar hooks so PPs comments were helpful. My kiddo is URM and also has other URM legacies in their class plus nationally ranked URM athletes. PP identified enough to know whether her/his advice applied to individual readers.[/quote]

Tell it to the PP who thought that URM hook wasn’t worth mentioning - otherwise unhooked?  Hooked is hooked.

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No, you still don’t get it. Are you pregnant, or not? You can’t be a little pregnant; you can be a little hooked. Merely hooked (athletes aside) still probably means rejection; double and triple hooks means likely (but not definite) acceptance. 
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I get it, but you are incorrect about “otherwise unhooked.” Hooked is hooked. Of course, double and triple hooked is better than single hooked. However, they are ALL hooked. [/quote]

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