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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What you’ll also see happen is colleges become much more dependent on in-person interviews for holistic admissions. A kid who scores a 1450 on his SAT but has a very outgoing personality with a unique ability to “sell himself” will be more attractive to Harvard than the kid with perfect stats who is social awkward. I bet you see more intangibles become more important.

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Lol no, Harvard would not even look at the 1450 SAT kid unless they are URM or a Senator's son. Because the choice for Harvard isn't between a kid with 1450 SAT and outgoing personality vs. a 1600 SAT nerd.

It's between a 1600 SAT with an outgoing personality and a 1600 SAT with academic research done in high school, math olympiad, international programming competitions, etc.

And Harvard would choose the latter every time, because kids with outgoing personalities are a dime a dozen and easily developed. Genuine intelligence is rare and impossible to develop.  [/quote]

No, Harvard chooses the former.  MIT takes the latter.  A former IMO contestant has started a program to help the top math kids get better acceptances to elite colleges other than Cal Tech and MIT, based on the idea that the other top schools are looking at personality and communication skills.[/quote]

And Harvard is doing everything it can to recruit more STEM students to build out its STEM pedigree. So no, they'd choose the latter.

Outgoing personalities are a dime a dozen. You can go to your local bar and meet many people with an outgoing personality. None of them will have amounted to much.

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