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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]UPenn alum who interviews- I haven’t met a single kid from Churchill who ever sent a thank you note. These kids take it as a given that they’ll get in and then surprise, they don’t. They all have the same magnificent extra curriculars which are clearly done just to get into college. It’s much harder to get in now than when I went there in the 90s. [/quote]

I'll bet you enjoy doing the interviewing and thinking you're superior.  You realize that the interview means nothing to the admissions committee and that it's just a big ego feed, right?[/quote]

You totally missed my point. The interview means nothing. I’m saying that  it’s hard to stand  out and when it is between two kids with comparable applications, you never know what one little thing is going to push them over into the yes pile.  It’s a shame, cause if they were applying from somewhere with less local competition they’d probably get in. [/quote]

Funny, because the way it was written it sounded like you thought Churchill kids were ungrateful kids who were in no position to be uppity given that they were just padding their resumes and they should have written you a TY letter for the privilege of the interview. (and I get that writing a TY note is a good thing - my kid did do them for all the alum interviews he did)[/quote]

Not padded just not special since they all had done amazing things. Sucks to be from a school where so many of the kids apply to the same colleges. And yes, the kids from some of the other MOCO high schools which aren’t considered as good were much more gracious. [/quote]

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