<p>A friend from my school was accepted at every college he applied to, including Harvard and Stanford (he presumably would have been accepted to Yale had he applied.</p>
<p>He was black, valedictorian, had a 2270, was ASB President (former class president), won the Women’s University Speech Contest, and was in Junior State of America, Model UN, Moot Court, NHS, swim, and dive. He was an average writer, but very charismatic and doubtlessly gave a killer interview. He would have had a decent chance even if he weren’t a URM, but he was, so he was unstoppable. He also won a local scholarship that gives him a full ride for undergrad and graduate school, as well as all kinds of cost of living stuff. </p>
<p>Interestingly, he ended up going to UC Berkeley because he couldn’t stand Harvard and Stanford’s “ugly campuses.”</p>