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By "this story", are you referring to your story, or the story described in the parent post "> Many of the incoming students I speak with are overachievers who
by p00dles 3y ago
By "this story", are you referring to your story, or the story described in the parent post "> Many of the incoming students I speak with are overachievers who spent a lot of time in high school thinking about how to get into a great college. They strategized their extracurriculars and optimized their grades. (To an extent, that was me.)"?
- alephnerd 3y agoReferring to thelastparadise saying "It really is a different world for the well-connected." It is, but plenty of us at these programs went to average High Schools but had great grades, extracurriculars, and an actual goal we wanted to achieve.