The Perfect Applicant

Applying to College
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<p>I will agree with wonton (post #4), but add:</p>

<p>First place in national science fair for identifying and repeating method to block protein consumption by cancer cells, spent past four summers in Jakarta distributing 47,000 new and gently used shoes collected in 43 states by a non-profit she founded and first female to break four minute mile. Also, she is a people person who loves hiking, mountain biking and long conversations over pizza made with only locally grown flour and veggies and water collected from roof.</p>

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<p>Hollywood star or Olympic team member.</p>

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<p>Child adopted, </p>

<ol>
<li><p>adopted parents are poor, didn’t go to college.</p></li>
<li><p>Biological parents are legacies, donate 1 million dollars to the school on child’s behalf (secret benefactors? think Pip from Great Expectations)</p></li>
</ol>

<p>=> acceptance</p>

<p>to increase admission</p>

<ol>
<li><p>your last name is Kennedy
=> enough said</p></li>
<li><p>one of the parents robs a convenience store, leading to a great essay topic by kid.</p></li>
</ol>

<p>==> acceptance + adcoms drooling</p>

<ol>
<li>plus he/she starred in a Hollywood movie</li>
</ol>

<p>==> acceptance plus buckets of drool</p>

<ol>
<li>and the movie was about underpriveleged children!!!</li>
</ol>

<p>==> come on! jaws hit the floor all over Cambridge</p>

<ol>
<li>plus they lived in a car during high school </li>
</ol>

<p>=> everyone loves that</p>

<ol>
<li><p>recruited athlete
==> 1-6 was probably unnecessary; this was enough</p></li>
<li><p>actually did everything on Aleksey Vayner’s resume’ (seriously, google it)
==> the most interesting man in the world has nothing on this guy</p></li>
<li><p>climbed Mount Everest
==> everybody loves that</p></li>
<li><p>second application essay – model after John Mongan’s letter to MIT</p></li>
<li><p>ok, I think that covers all the bases. What else is there?</p></li>
</ol>

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<p><a href=“http://authorweb.dingir.org/occult/high-weirdness/thesis-of-superman[/url]”>http://authorweb.dingir.org/occult/high-weirdness/thesis-of-superman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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HAHAHA. This sounds like some horrible romance movie. Probably with Julia Roberts. She goes to Spain or something, meets some guy who teaches her to make pizza, and everything in the world is perfect now that they are together~</p>

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<p>I’m guessing you just described Eat Pray Love.</p>

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^the closest thing to perfect I could find. These are Pranam0’s stats and he was accepted Dartmouth ED, Class of 2015. College Confidential, amazing happens here. :)</p>

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<p>^ I’ve seen many better right here on CC. I’m not too familiar with most of the things in his “major awards” section, but I highly doubt they are in the same league as Intel/USAMO. A quick search of a few of them and the ambiguity of “National Finalist” makes it seem like his awards sound much more impressive than they are.</p>

<p>Just look at the Yale SCEA thread and you’ll see plenty of kids that I think are even more incredible.</p>