| I don't disagree with you at all, jonri, especially since you stressed that the student does not need to reinvent himself to employ the strategy. And yes, my example of a school where the student is perhaps too different may have been extreme.
However, as je_ne_sais_ quoi laments, the average person doesn't have easy access to the type of information you cite above, which would be invaluable when applying. That MIT must receive bizillions of applications from Asian science kids would be an easy guess. But how do you know that Stanford receives fewer applications from all-state musicians than Harvard or Yale? If I were more involved in the music world, would that be an equally obvious assumption, or are you a college counselor? |