<p>What were your friend's ECs besides tutoring underprivileged kids? Just wondering as I don't have perfect scores either and I think I might have hope! Congratz to your friend!</p>
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Makes sense. A cousin of a girl in my class got accepted into Harvard with an 1800. Surprising, no?
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<p>I'm assuming that she must play the french horn.</p>
<p>IF your family knows someone on the admissions committee is it really that big of a deal? I always see people posting about how people can get in with well below exceptional stats and other posters say that it must be because they know someone on the admissions committee or something like that. If you went to high school with one of the admissions committee members could you really just call them and if your child had acceptable stats they could get them in just like that? And if so wouldn't you run into at least a few people who were significantly less able and wouldn't these kids have trouble going to med and law schools and wherever else they want to go, or does the help continue long into adult hood?</p>
<p>It really doesn't happen, jjsamson, if that's what you're getting at.</p>
<p>Obviously I can't speak for every case, but knowing the AdCom is hardly a golden ticket.</p>
<p>I think Harvard lets in one or two like this every year, just to create a buzz and stir things up -- and we see that it works!!</p>
<p>yeah im not suprised. they're bound to accept a few guys like this just for the hell of it. No big deal.</p>
<p>This person wasn't a recruited athlete?</p>