<p>I've recently seen references in various threads to "Ivy quality/caliber" students. What do you consider to be an "Ivy qualitity/caliber" student? Is it test scores, GPA, ECs, the ability to pay Ivy tuitions or a combination of these?</p>
<p>It’s the ability to stand out positively amongst the thousands of applicants that have extremely high stats.</p>
<p>Basically everything they do, they do at a level far beyond the average person. Or they do one thing at a level that few others in the world can do as well.</p>
<p>This generally holds except for the super rich and those with very strong connections.</p>
<p>It’s a lot easier to be good at everything than it is to be outstanding in one thing. 4.0 GPA, 2400 SAT students have been rejected because they don’t stand out in any particular field.</p>
<p>Hey Aristocrat, I’m going to be the very first person not to give you a hard time about your name. In fact, I’m surprised it wasn’t taken already. </p>
<p>Haha, I just noticed that you’re given so much bull for it everywhere.</p>
<p>Ivy “quality”= passionate, intellectual, intelligent, kind, responsible, hard-working, looks at the bigger picture of how to improve the world. </p>
<p>…that’s my definition of the best kind of student anyway :)</p>
<p>It means you can get into an Ivy League school…lol. It’s just a way of summarizing a statistically stellar student who also has a compelling personality and potential for future accomplishment as demonstrated through ECs, recs, essays, and the interview. These students don’t always get into their Ivy of choice because admissions are so selective as to seem almost arbitrary, but they are qualified nonetheless.</p>
<p>A student who is impeccably clean and sterile. One that you could use for other things, such as orally or as a suppository, but has been declared by the FDA to be good enough to follow the same path as your traditional heroin or ketamine.</p>
<p>Hopefully you won’t get HIV.</p>