"I'm that social nerd who definitely is good with tech and computers, but also is fun and likes to play games," says Justin Dominic, one of 837 admits to Yale University's Class of '25 EA. When the LA-area senior isn't hanging out with his buddies and getting straight As, he leads a Science Olympiad and robotics team and manages digital publishing for his school newspaper.
“I didn’t read any sample essays until I wrote down a couple of my own essays. I didn’t want to get into a mindset of: ‘an essay is supposed to look like this.'” says Navpreet Singh, one of the 4.8% of applicants admitted early to MIT’s Class of 2025.
“We didn’t even notice if your test scores weren’t there. It’s not even something that I’ll notice, and I won’t take it into account,” says Alex Cardenas, a Carleton College admissions officer. Fun facts: Carleton has a 16:1 student to teacher ratio. Students are invited, per tradition, to send each other flowers every Friday.
“If there are two students who have very similar applications, but just one thing that differentiates them, we might choose the one from an area or a background that we don’t have yet,” says Carleton College admissions officer Alex Cardenas. Just outside of Minneapolis, Carleton is the most selective college in Minn., accepting 19% of apps in 2020.
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