Anonymous wrote:a)recruited athlete plus good grades/scores
b) URM plus good grades/scoresc
c) legacy plus good grades/scores

OR
d) close to perfect grades/scores and something else remarkable.


If you're not a, b or c you need a stellar academic record plus something else that sets you apart from the crowd. Something that makes you remarkable.

e) family has extraordinary wealth. (Such that they are capable of 7- or 8-digit donations.) Plus good grades/test scores.

Anonymous wrote:Recruited athletes with sufficient grades and test scores for the non-legacies I know about

+1

Sufficient or NEAR sufficient grades- test scores optional - under the guise of "athlete" - from the ones I know.

In many ways, it used to be much harder to get in to Ivy colleges/unis.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m pretty sure merit is a given. The standards are just so high now. Otherwise, what pp’s have said, plus some exceedingly wealthy foreigners.

There's no merit aid at Ivy league colleges. There is only Financial Aid.

So true. My friend's kid got into one, he was valedictorian at a large high school, state ranked athlete, captain of two sports teams, started a charity in 7th grade, the best grades and test scores it's possible to get, fluent in a difficult foreign language. Tons of volunteer time with food banks. Not one dime of scholarship money. His parents will pay the full 300k.

Because they can.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m pretty sure merit is a given. The standards are just so high now. Otherwise, what pp’s have said, plus some exceedingly wealthy foreigners.

There's no merit aid at Ivy league colleges. There is only Financial Aid.

I don’t think PP meant merit aid, rather merit as in stellar academics.

I realize that now, yes. I rarely see that word on the college forum when it isn't connected to *money* issues and assumed before I read it properly...

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Anonymous wrote:I’m pretty sure merit is a given. The standards are just so high now. Otherwise, what pp’s have said, plus some exceedingly wealthy foreigners.

There's no merit aid at Ivy league colleges. There is only Financial Aid.

I don’t think PP meant merit aid, rather merit as in stellar academics.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m pretty sure merit is a given. The standards are just so high now. Otherwise, what pp’s have said, plus some exceedingly wealthy foreigners.

There's no merit aid at Ivy league colleges. There is only Financial Aid.

So true. My friend's kid got into one, he was valedictorian at a large high school, state ranked athlete, captain of two sports teams, started a charity in 7th grade, the best grades and test scores it's possible to get, fluent in a difficult foreign language. Tons of volunteer time with food banks. Not one dime of scholarship money. His parents will pay the full 300k.

Again, no, Ivies do not offer any scholarships beyond financial aid, so no list of accomplishments changes that.

My son got into three. I went to a state school, we’re white, American, he’s not an athlete, we didn’t donate any money.

I’m not sure legacy gets you that much unless alum is a major donor or majorly active as an alum.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m pretty sure merit is a given. The standards are just so high now. Otherwise, what pp’s have said, plus some exceedingly wealthy foreigners.

There's no merit aid at Ivy league colleges. There is only Financial Aid.

So true. My friend's kid got into one, he was valedictorian at a large high school, state ranked athlete, captain of two sports teams, started a charity in 7th grade, the best grades and test scores it's possible to get, fluent in a difficult foreign language. Tons of volunteer time with food banks. Not one dime of scholarship money. His parents will pay the full 300k.

Anonymous wrote:I’m pretty sure merit is a given. The standards are just so high now. Otherwise, what pp’s have said, plus some exceedingly wealthy foreigners.

There's no merit aid at Ivy league colleges. There is only Financial Aid.

It helps to apply from flyover country.

Anonymous wrote:They start with better punctuation than you

DP. No need to be rude. You could have just mentioned that "Ivies" is correct.

Anonymous wrote:Hint: people who talk about "the Ivy's" are not the kind of people who get into the Ivies.

So true. Learn basic grammar please.

Hint: people who talk about "the Ivy's" are not the kind of people who get into the Ivies.

Anonymous wrote:What does URM mean?

Underrepresented minority