Anonymous wrote:Lots of defensive strivers posting in the thread. And/or people too dumb to know what a striver is. Kind of funny. The increase in strivers is why college sucks so much these days. Good admission officers can pick them out and avoid them but there is only so much they can do.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to Duke and when I went to a top tier professional school, it was very clear how much more relaxed and comfortable in their own skin the Duke alums than people from almost every other school (while still being top achievers). We got our work done very well with much less drama than others.

Unfortunately, I think Duke has a lot more strivers now than it used to. Which is really too bad. I think a non-striver can still be happy there if they can avoid getting sucked in.

This is satire, right?

I think it's an utter lack of self awareness. I've never met a more obnoxious group as a whole than Duke grads. They are insufferable.

Funny because in corporate America Duke alums have a reputation as being the best to work with because they have people skills, unlike Ivy League nerds, bookworms and strivers. Agree that there are plenty of D-bags from Duke, but there are many who are not.

DDMF.

I mean you - presumably a Duke alum - insulted Ivy grads "nerds, bookworms and strivers." Which proves my point of how insufferable Duke grads are.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to Duke and when I went to a top tier professional school, it was very clear how much more relaxed and comfortable in their own skin the Duke alums than people from almost every other school (while still being top achievers). We got our work done very well with much less drama than others.

Unfortunately, I think Duke has a lot more strivers now than it used to. Which is really too bad. I think a non-striver can still be happy there if they can avoid getting sucked in.

This is satire, right?

I think it's an utter lack of self awareness. I've never met a more obnoxious group as a whole than Duke grads. They are insufferable.

Fully agree

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Anonymous wrote:Lol only smart kids go to Duke and Dartmouth sorry you can’t get in.

Lol both schools will admit a kid with a 1250 over a kid with a 1580 if the 1250 fills some institutional priority and the AO who reads the application happens to decide that the 1580 kid seems boring or unlikeable.

Are you AO? Stop spreading lies. Kids are evaluated holistically including SAT.

* 22% Valedictorian
* 95% top 10% of the class
* 99% submitted

Fact check - https://admissions.dartmouth.edu/sites/admissions.prod/files/admissions/wysiwyg/class29profile_fin.pdf

There are lots of tricks to make the numbers look good. Again, I am going by the kids who went to Dartmouth from DC’s school last year. Not a single one of them was in the top 10 percent of the class. One of them was not even in the top 20 percent. But that won’t show up above because technically, the school doesn’t rank. (The top 10 and 20 become apparent from cum laude indication).

Great. Please stay away from schools that admit normal human.

By “normal human” you mean having parents that are big donors?

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Anonymous wrote:Lol only smart kids go to Duke and Dartmouth sorry you can’t get in.

Lol both schools will admit a kid with a 1250 over a kid with a 1580 if the 1250 fills some institutional priority and the AO who reads the application happens to decide that the 1580 kid seems boring or unlikeable.

Are you AO? Stop spreading lies. Kids are evaluated holistically including SAT.

* 22% Valedictorian
* 95% top 10% of the class
* 99% submitted

Fact check - https://admissions.dartmouth.edu/sites/admissions.prod/files/admissions/wysiwyg/class29profile_fin.pdf

There are lots of tricks to make the numbers look good. Again, I am going by the kids who went to Dartmouth from DC’s school last year. Not a single one of them was in the top 10 percent of the class. One of them was not even in the top 20 percent. But that won’t show up above because technically, the school doesn’t rank. (The top 10 and 20 become apparent from cum laude indication).

Great. Please stay away from schools that admit normal human.

By “normal human” you mean having parents that are big donors?

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Anonymous wrote:Lol only smart kids go to Duke and Dartmouth sorry you can’t get in.

Lol both schools will admit a kid with a 1250 over a kid with a 1580 if the 1250 fills some institutional priority and the AO who reads the application happens to decide that the 1580 kid seems boring or unlikeable.

Are you AO? Stop spreading lies. Kids are evaluated holistically including SAT.

* 22% Valedictorian
* 95% top 10% of the class
* 99% submitted

Fact check - https://admissions.dartmouth.edu/sites/admissions.prod/files/admissions/wysiwyg/class29profile_fin.pdf

There are lots of tricks to make the numbers look good. Again, I am going by the kids who went to Dartmouth from DC’s school last year. Not a single one of them was in the top 10 percent of the class. One of them was not even in the top 20 percent. But that won’t show up above because technically, the school doesn’t rank. (The top 10 and 20 become apparent from cum laude indication).

Great. Please stay away from schools that admit normal human.

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Anonymous wrote:Lol only smart kids go to Duke and Dartmouth sorry you can’t get in.

Lol both schools will admit a kid with a 1250 over a kid with a 1580 if the 1250 fills some institutional priority and the AO who reads the application happens to decide that the 1580 kid seems boring or unlikeable.

Are you AO? Stop spreading lies. Kids are evaluated holistically including SAT.

* 22% Valedictorian
* 95% top 10% of the class
* 99% submitted

Fact check - https://admissions.dartmouth.edu/sites/admissions.prod/files/admissions/wysiwyg/class29profile_fin.pdf

If you think every 1580 kid who applies to Dartmouth is getting in, you have a lot to learn.

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Anonymous wrote:Lol only smart kids go to Duke and Dartmouth sorry you can’t get in.

Lol both schools will admit a kid with a 1250 over a kid with a 1580 if the 1250 fills some institutional priority and the AO who reads the application happens to decide that the 1580 kid seems boring or unlikeable.

Are you AO? Stop spreading lies. Kids are evaluated holistically including SAT.

* 22% Valedictorian
* 95% top 10% of the class
* 99% submitted

Fact check - https://admissions.dartmouth.edu/sites/admissions.prod/files/admissions/wysiwyg/class29profile_fin.pdf

There are lots of tricks to make the numbers look good. Again, I am going by the kids who went to Dartmouth from DC’s school last year. Not a single one of them was in the top 10 percent of the class. One of them was not even in the top 20 percent. But that won’t show up above because technically, the school doesn’t rank. (The top 10 and 20 become apparent from cum laude indication).

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Anonymous wrote:Lol only smart kids go to Duke and Dartmouth sorry you can’t get in.

Lol both schools will admit a kid with a 1250 over a kid with a 1580 if the 1250 fills some institutional priority and the AO who reads the application happens to decide that the 1580 kid seems boring or unlikeable.

Are you AO? Stop spreading lies. Kids are evaluated holistically including SAT.

* 22% Valedictorian
* 95% top 10% of the class
* 99% submitted

Fact check - https://admissions.dartmouth.edu/sites/admissions.prod/files/admissions/wysiwyg/class29profile_fin.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:Lol only smart kids go to Duke and Dartmouth sorry you can’t get in.

Lol both schools will admit a kid with a 1250 over a kid with a 1580 if the 1250 fills some institutional priority and the AO who reads the application happens to decide that the 1580 kid seems boring or unlikeable.

Are you AO? Stop spreading lies. Kids are evaluated holistically including SAT.

* 22% Valedictorian
* 95% top 10% of the class
* 99% submitted

Fact check - https://admissions.dartmouth.edu/sites/admissions.prod/files/admissions/wysiwyg/class29profile_fin.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:Lol only smart kids go to Duke and Dartmouth sorry you can’t get in.

Lol both schools will admit a kid with a 1250 over a kid with a 1580 if the 1250 fills some institutional priority and the AO who reads the application happens to decide that the 1580 kid seems boring or unlikeable.

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Anonymous wrote:Diligent and Striver do not mean the same thing. Many diligent students are not Strivers.

Strivers = kids who memorize and regurgitate definitions, primarily for the purpose of achieving good test scores.

Diligent = kids who take the time to understand language and recognize that words are tools which we use to communicate.

Anonymous wrote:Lol only smart kids go to Duke and Dartmouth sorry you can’t get in.