Smash College Admission: Promote students who are passionate about one subject but lag in the others (NYT Opinion)

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@Medea1

University of Chicago representatives come to my town and only visit three private schools. If you want to attend U Chicago out of our area, you better be going to those three schools. You don’t need to be extraordinary, but need to graduate in the top 10% of those three schools. A stronger kid at a local public is simply not even looked at.

We live in Massachusetts which has a lot of great public and private high schools. The University of Chicago has never visited our local public high school, but seems to keep taking anywhere from 1-4 students every year.