Can Personality Get You Into Your Top Choice College?

Applying to College
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<p>Now I'm talking when you have the "academic" stats that put you in the middle 50% of the class (ie the good but not shoo in student) & I'm talking reaches like Princeton and such. If you have a great personality, which the adcoms should see when they read your essays/app, can that be the make it or break it point for them? Probably something that can't actually be answered but what do you think:</p>

<p>Would you accept one student over another who is similar (not necessarily the same) in stats than another because you love their personality?</p>

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<p>yeah, i definitely would. personality is very important. colleges don’t want mundane people coming to their precious schools. hah.</p>

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<p>I think they call it passion. But you’ll need to live it. The evidence should oooze through in our essay. ******** can only get you so far, def not to the top tier.</p>

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<p>Definitely. At MIT, the only “Very Important” factor in admissions is “Character/Personal Qualities,” which MIT frequently calls [The</a> Match Between You and MIT](<a href=“http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/pulse/the_match_between_you_and_mit/]The”>http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/pulse/the_match_between_you_and_mit/). It’s of similar importance at UChicago, where essays, which express personality, and “Character/Personal Qualities” are the top two most important factors.</p>

<p>Just look up the Common Data Sets of the schools in which you are interested. The importance of each factor in admissions will be listed. Like, here’s MIT’s: [MIT</a> Office of the Provost, Institutional Research](<a href=“http://web.mit.edu/ir/cds/2009/c.html]MIT”>MIT Institutional Research)</p>