<p>fiona_ most of the people who get into Ivy league schools aren’t like that. You’re not going to do something you don’t like; ergo you won’t care so much about academics and service if you didn’t actually like them (unless you’re one of the crazy people on CC who create 15 chance threads. I unlike you, see that intellectualism is easily more important than all those other qualities-especially considering intellectualism gives you the bigger picture. People praise McCain for being a POW, but to be honest, I see the President of the Harvard Law Review as a far more venerable position and apropos towards becoming President. But clearly you don’t. We don’t need to argue that here.</p>