<p>^ What is the relation?</p>
<p>^Ok thanks! What would you consider an “outstanding achievement”?</p>
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<p>He is a cousin of mine/my mother’s*, I believe.</p>
<p>*[more related to grammar than to me being a legacy, but, in this context, would it be mother’s, mothers, or mothers’?]</p>
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<p>This will vary from school to school, from admissions officer to admissions officer, and with the ease with which the claim can be checked. USAMO, for example, can easily be checked online, so they will likely attempt to confirm that (MIT says that they always check this). Likewise, awards in other major competitions can almost always be and usually will be checked.</p>
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<p>Then you will likely receive nor or little benefit in the legacy sense, but submitting a positive and seemingly informed recommendation from a big donor can provide a huge boost.</p>
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<p>You can write cousin of my mother or cousin of my mother’s. Both are acceptable.</p>
<p>For anyone who is religious, I would strongly recommend praying. It works especially well for standardized tests…</p>
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<p>Woops, meant to say “no or little benefit.”</p>
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Is this done in hopes of not alienating the donor?</p>
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<p>Yes. Colleges like money.</p>
<p>Wow, nice work! What an exhaustive guide!</p>
<p>I didn’t even see it on the first page because it was stickied =P</p>
<p>Well done.</p>
<p>^second that. silverturtle, thank you so much again for creating this guide. Really, it has so many extremely helpful hints for scoring well on the SAT, especially for the writing section.</p>
<p>No problem. :)</p>
<p>silver, i’m just wondering what schools you plan on applying to?</p>
<p>This is pretty intense win.</p>
<p>@yearsofwisdom: I will PM you.</p>
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<p>Could an asain applicant avoid this problem by simply choosing not to report their ethnicity?</p>
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<p>Indeed, any applicant may leave that category blank. It is unclear how this affects the admissions process, however.</p>
<p>Silverturtle, for the idiomatic phrasal verbs, did you actually memorize all that? I looked through the list, and did not recognize a lot of them…I feel like it’s one of those things where if you memorize it, you can forget it or get confused very easily…Are there specific ones where the collegeboard likes to use frequently or is knowing the whole list the only way?</p>
<p>^ I don’t know of any that have been repeatedly tested. But it shouldn’t be too difficult to learn them if you read them aloud and try to calibrate your mind’s ear to recognize the correct form.</p>