The "Unhook"

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<p>Princeton high school, very similar to Palo Alto high (Stanford).</p>

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<p>lspf, development would research the branch of the family, if no big gift was forthcoming, Tripp is done for!</p>

<p>My favorite story from 'The Price of Admission' is the story of how Duke courted Ralph Lauren when his child applied, an adcom going for dinner at his house. Duke accepts child, expects big gift, gets $50K.</p>

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<p>I'd say a 600 SAT (400 CR+M) is an unhook. Unless you get points for purposefully not getting any question right, in which case it may be a hook for sheer style and bravado.</p>

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<p>Now that's a tricky dance... Development looking for the big dollars from the Worthington's and the Worthington's looking for the fat envelope from Admissions.... </p>

<p>Quite the game of chicken.</p>

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I'd say a 600 SAT (400 CR+M) is an unhook. Unless you get points for purposefully not getting any question right, in which case it may be a hook for sheer style and bravado.

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<p>I remember reading about this guy who graduated from UPenn and did grad school at UCI who set out to get every question wrong on the SAT (back when it was out of 1600). He got all but two questions wrong, got a 400, 1st percentile, and had the scores sent to UPenn, UCI, Harvard and MIT.</p>

<p>Ah, here it is:
WWW.COLINFAHEY.COM</a> : Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) : Answering All Questions Incorrectly!</p>

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<p>Applying to every Ivy.</p>

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<p>^The perfect unhook!!</p>

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<p>deciding not to care about your mid-year grades
that will pretty much unhook any hook you might have had</p>

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<p>Re: post 46--
Try posting that on one of the CC student/college admission threads-- you might get eaten alive!</p>

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Grinds who've brown nosed and spent all of their free time studying so they could get sky high test scores and grades</p>

<p>Students who've gone out of their way to do exactly what they think top colleges will want to see in their applications

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<p>To NSM (or anyone else):
How can they tell? What kind of application would suggest those things? I'm really curious, because besides tips from teacher recommendations, it doesn't seem like colleges could know. Especially the second one.</p>