What exactly are individual top colleges looking for?

mathmom
Wed, 07 Jun 2017 12:47:00 +0000

Forgot about this thread for a while, but way back at post #62, there were comments about book reading and introverts. Don’t despair, there is plenty of room for them too. My son is more than introverted, it’s like pulling teeth to have a conversation with him. (Though I was invited in for the tail end of his Harvard interview and he seemed to be doing fine, thankfully!) He also had read well over 100 books. His essay also showed a sense of humor even though, I think at best, you could call it a not bad for an engineer essay. I think it’s highly doubtful that his essay was an important part of his (or most) decisions about who to admit.