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>We used a vibes based system based on how compelling a sob story you could concoct whilst staying on the good side of fraud.
Besides lost meritocracy, that is accidentally filtering for ability and willingness to manipulate others emotionally. Which feels really scary.
Honestly I don’t believe a thing they’re saying. Just look at the demographics of any Ivy League school and you’ll see it can’t be true
My kid applied to Brown and others and the prep company we hired ($150/hr) spent more time going through the "sob story" the parent talked about than any other requirement (kids scores are to be fair quite decent already).
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Somehow majority of Ivy League students don't have those sob stories and did not had for last years either?