On Apr 17, 1:13*am, Hawke wrote:


So you either are connected like a George W. Bush who couldn't qualify
for Yale except for money, name, and a legacy. Or you are the
valedictorian of your high school. Nothing special about that, right?
Are you serious? If you aren't well connected or lucky you can forget
getting into any of those schools.



I will answer in detail later. Right now I have a bunch of things to
do. But you are wrong about what you say in the paragraph above.

It is true that there are a few legacy students. But the number is
almost non existent. For example the freshman class at Harvard is
about 1700. Out of that number I would estimate the number of legacy
students at maybe 4. Probably less than 4. That comes out to about
0.2 percent.

There is nothing special about being the valedictorian of your high
school class.
I mentioned that because it shows how hard it is to get into an Ivy
League school. You have to be intelligent and you have to work at
learning. No special route. Just hard work and intelligence. No
luck required. Luck will not get you good grades. Hard work and
intelligence will. And you can get into an Ivy League school without
being the valedictorian. But if you do, there is an excellent chance
the valedictorian of your class also got accepted by an Ivy League
school.


Dan