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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hey Ivy League Interviewer. Tell us what you really think about the young people who didn't make it into your school?  Jeez. Remind me to not allow my children to apply to the Ivies if they graduate a lot of prigs like you.  It's a big world out there, too bad you have to live it among all of us dullards.[/quote]

Prig or not, I studied on a Pell Grant and really enjoyed talking to the astronomy kid from Tuscon, a FARMS student.  He won scholarships to attend summer camps at the Univ. of AZ observatory.  I plugged for him.  The others seemed programmed to do well on AP exams and not much more.  Ivies tend to like quirky applicants because they stand out, which helps with admissions rates no higher than 10%.  The Ivies probably don't care what alum interviewers have to say anyway, unless they're on the fence about a particular applicant.  MIT is no different.  They love INTEL semi-finalists, finalists and winners.  Look at the BASIS fall thread where grads (Cal Tech guy, Stanford guy) comment on BASIS' AP heavy approach if you're interested.

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