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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCUM is pretty much always wrong[/quote] People talk a lot about probabilities on this site. If someone tells you your kid has a low chance of getting into an Ivy, that's not a bad probabilistic guess. Intangibles, such as how great the LORs and essays may be, are impossible to assess without having seen them. I was a scholarship committee member for a PTA. Over 5 years I learned that there were only two teachers at the high school who wrote recs that were better than pedestrian. They were both English teachers. And one of the references I remember most came from an employer about a future business student's marketing acumen. With examples. One of the teachers has retired. One of his protégés became an OOS Banneker Key at UMD and now she works at the NYT. He knew talent and how to showcase it. The rest just write boring stuff cribbed from the brag sheet. This is why DCUM skews negative. They don't see the magic.[/quote]
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