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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From a counselor I follow:

“It's the time of year where parents and kids are combing over their applications in their minds after being rejected or waitlisted at their top choice universities. I see a deep stream of posts listing stats, and pointing to those stats as proof the admissions officers really messed up.

Stats are only a filter to get your foot through the door.
As this former Yale admissions officer explains, they "agonize" over sentences in a personal statement. Proof that my declaration that the personal statement is the single most important part of the college application post-covid. [b]If your essay does not make them feel something powerful and deep for you, you are not getting in.
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I work with students one on one to craft powerful and moving creative nonfiction stories for their personal statement essays.

They also search for students like needles in the haystack, who are self-aware and understand the importance of how their presence impacts others.

They also search for students with texture. The biologist who also dives deep into gender studies, the computer scientist who is fascinated with solving the logistical problems of the Dyson sphere, the mathematician who is an award-winning poet, the journalist who is obsessed with Strauss and plays the instruments that get her to the deepest place she can reach inside his music.

I will point out that Brown in particular also has these kinds of criteria in their admissions decisions.

Diversify - spend time cultivating more than one of your artistic or academic passions.

Stats are only a yard stick. It takes much more to grab the attention of T20 admissions officers and get invited into 3rd round deliberations.”[/quote]

And "If your essay does not make them feel something powerful and deep for you" in the 45 seconds they read the essay, you are doomed. So definitely hire this counselor, who makes sure "AO's feel something powerful and deep for you".
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Didn't use that counselor (but someone else) and think that's why my DC got into 4 T20s last cycle test optional. Everyone who read the essay said it made them gasp/cry or some other reaction.

I don't think its bad advice. The personal essays (and the supps really) are VERY important at any private T20.[/quote]

It's not the emotional response itself, per se -- it's that an emotional connection to the applicant can be a very powerful x factor.[/quote]

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