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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're responding to different posters, so don't assume an agenda.  I previously said neither A nor B get in, but I'm not the Yale interviewer.  We just agree.  (As, apparently, do a couple other posters).

FWIW, I don't look for shared interests -- if anything, I probably tend to be more impressed by kids who are able to make things I'm not especially drawn to seem interesting.  I think Yale interviewer's comment that you forget that you're talking to a teenager really captures what makes the exceptional kids stand out.

And, yeah, our recommendations as interviewers are meaningless -- but so are yours.  Alumni interviews rarely matter.  That said, I've also been involved in admissions and fellowship decisionmaking (and recommendation writing) as a faculty member, so [b]I've seen lots of applicant files and that also shapes my perspective re what gets a candidate noticed.[/b][/quote]

So what gets noticed, other than this not seeming like a teenager vibe?[/quote]

+1 Share your secrets!

Having met many of these kids from DD's school who went on to Ivies, they all still sounded like teenagers to me, just slightly more introspective ones. I don't think A or B were supposed to be examples of exact conversations given they were stereotypical caricatures, just a way to illustrate that B was more in depth in portraying the "whys" than A even though they had the same accomplishments.[/quote]

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