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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These schools are realizing that many "top students" are complete weirdos.

Have you been to a tour at a top20 lately?  Or an accepted student day?  I have and a large percentage of the crowd looks like they spent high school in their bedroom. 
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Heard from one T10 school admission officer on a recalibration in their social metrics for this year.[/quote]

Yes. We recently went to an accepted student function for an Ivy.  The kids [b]by-in-large[/b] were REALLY weird.  No other way to say it. 
Out of 40 maybe 5 appeared to be social, typical kids. My husband and I left saying: "no doubt these kids are brilliant but are they going to be employable in a few years when extensive in-person interviewing is involved?"

It's the colleges' own fault. They chose to admit kids who have the resumes 40 year olds at age 18 and focused on pointy, obscure interests. There is simply so way to be a typical social teenager and invest in your peers and do all that stuff in 4 years. 
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People with actual talent don't need to bluff their way through an interview. They can just perform. [/quote]

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