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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Drug dealer[/quote]

Seriously. This will be the next thing AOs are looking for: show us you are not afraid of breaking the rules.[/quote]

Sometimes it seems like the AOs are simply moving the goalposts but it seems to me that there are no goalposts.  They are looking for the most special kids their school can attract.  For any school under the top 100, a good GPA and SAT score will do the trick.  You don't have to get crazy with being unique beyond grades and SAT score unless you are on the bubble.  At about t25, having near perfect SAT and GPA barely gets you on the bubble so you have to be special in some other way that is attractive to them.  Every school is different in this regard.

Stanford wants to see that you started a multi-million dollar start-up and are in your 3rd round of VC financing.
Harvard wants you to be a national level gun control activist and bestselling author.
MIT wants you to go to a summer camp at Carnegie Mellon.
Any of these places would take you if you had a single original thought.
etc.
No big deal.[/quote]

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