| innervision: somewhat drastic lies. i dont want to give detaisl incase you notice that one is a classmate you know, but i can generalize. one was as minor as adding about 200 volunteer hours at a non-existant group. another wrote her whole essay about difficulties she had faced through her life, a brother suffering from severe depression almost killing himself, while it was fictional. others bumped themselves up a little, such as being the founder of a club, while they simply werent.
chronicidal: harvard accepts the smart students, obviously. they could, however, form a much smarter class. rather than accepting someone who did big brother or a major volunteer project, harvard could accept the valedictorian with 2350 SAT and that student would enroll at harvard. by rejecting students with better scores and grades, harvard is not trying to get the smartest students, they are rather accepting students to become well rounded, but also being tricked evidently. |