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<p>TPG, every school likes to admit kids who might show up. Obviously, a student who is hardly a hard-to-resist applicant and … seems to be a massively serial “prestige” applicant is shooting in that proverbial foot. </p>
<p>On the other hand, do you think that Caltech and MIT convert that “early like” into an admission advantage? As far as I know, MIT has never given much advantage to its early admissions, and still offers a non-restrictive early admission. </p>
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<p>In the grand scheme of the research produced by your typical “teenager-scientist,” that might amount to nothing more than a small bag of chips. The research is most often the product of parental connections and amounts to paint-by-the-number “research.” Just check the Intel Semi and Finalist to see how the best proposals are still very much the same adult manipulated process that is so despicable.</p>
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<p>Yes, and those students tend to have participated in … group activities, as opposed to be navel-gazing students who are obsessed with themselves and the pursuit of solitary academic and artistic awards. That ME obsession is often reflected in the application of the “perfect” student in terms of GPA and test scores.</p>
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<p>Brenzel let his position of Dean of Admissions at Yale quite a while ago!</p>