What exactly are individual top colleges looking for?

QuantMech
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 02:09:36 +0000

Re #94–I think the most amazing part of the New York Times article is at the very end, where one learns that ED for preschools exists.

Thanks, planner03! With this thread, I was not intending to suggest that students should mold or reconfigure themselves to fit what a particular school wants. Rather, I had in mind a student who has pretty good self-awareness of his/her strengths and weaknesses, and is looking for a “top” college that will respond favorably to the strengths. To a lesser extent, I had in mind students who might have qualities that a specific, individual college would particularly prize, but that the student might not think to highlight in applications to that school, and might not think to select recommenders who would highlight it.

I don’t think either of those two latter situations is inauthentic.

If you meet someone who went to H, Y, or P, can you generally tell with better than 1 in 3 odds which one he attended?