What exactly are individual top colleges looking for?

HCollegeAlum
Fri, 09 Jun 2017 05:48:24 +0000

@jrm815

So ironically, if a student needs to go to an Ivy to be successful, they don’t want you. If you don’t need to go to their school to be successful, THEN they accept you.

That may be the goal of the Ivy adcoms, but IMO, they don’t achieve it. I’ve seen plenty of HYPS students who didn’t do particularly great things in college but got a huge career boost from their name brands.