<p>Thank you for apologizing, and it is accepted. I posted in the wrong thread, and I apologize for the mistake. It won’t happen again.</p>
<p>I’ll throw out one more piece of sage advice about measuring up your likelyhood of getting an admission… Know what the student’s role at the school will be and know how to market it to the school.</p>
<p>Schools don’t admit numbers or resumes. Those things just get you looked at. They admit people of certain personality types who add something notable to one or more programs, diversity, or the endowment. Yes, the interview is critical. Each school has a different “personality” about it and looks for students who compliment that personality. If your student does X activity at a high level, getting the potential impact of that student’s contribution to that activity known is critical. Well-rounded isn’t necessarily a good thing. And quite frankly, if your student compliments the personality of the school, s/he will be a good fit and have a better experience.</p>
<p>As I have mentioned, there are plenty of qualified students who any of these schools could work with. There have been many threads about why a student is “selected, not rejected”. Finding your role and exploiting it is how you get selected.</p>
<p>There is a lot of useful information around here buried by a lot of other stuff. Glad to see that you are starting to see what there is. I’ll try to be more friendly going forward, as I do feel a bit bad for pushing things very negative very early on. For that I can apologize and accept that I did not have a good morning with my initial reply.</p>