Harvard

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@harvard2023: While this blog was written by the director of communications for MIT Admissions, you can just as easily substitute the words Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and a dozen other colleges in place of MIT: http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/there_is_no_formula

Trying to define admissions with a formula is like trying to define life with a formula. It’s like trying to explain poetry using calculus. It would take the human component out of it, which is perhaps the most important part.

It’s who you are that really matters. It’s how you embrace life. It’s how you treat other people. It’s passion. And yes, that stuff really does drip off the page in the best of our applications. It’s not anything I can explain - you just know when you read an application and a “perfect match” is there.