"Personal Context" and its Role in Holistic Admission

SJ2727
Tue, 18 Jun 2019 05:47:46 +0000

I’m certain my daughter’s personal context played an important role in her admission, given her stats were at the lower end the middle 50 of the school she was accepted to, but of course all the factors need to line up too. If she had been below the 25th percentile, or hadn’t done a great job in her essays, or hadn’t had what we presume was an excellent LOR, I doubt context alone would have been enough to tip her into the acceptance zone.