<p>mia305 wrote:</p>
<p>“Therefore, I am somewhat skeptical that the whole story is being told here, particularly since no stats are provided.”</p>
<p>The candidate in question is my daughter. Here’s the whole story: she got a likely letter from Harvard in mid-February. She is not an athlete. She is not a URM. She is not a legacy. In late February she met with the Harvard admissions officer who called her to admit her. He said she was not admitted to fill any particular need or slot, and that she was given a likely letter because she was “one of the most amazing candidates for admission any of us had ever seen”. Her interviewer, extremely prominent in alumni circles, reported to Harvard that she was the most impressive candidate she had ever seen in her 30 years of interviewing for Harvard.</p>
<p>Why must stats be posted for something to be true?</p>