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time_management on March 18, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Gladwell: Getting In, The social logic of Ivy Leag...

You must have been a very impressive applicant to have gotten into Princeton without a campus visit in 2000.

brandnewlow on March 18, 2009 [–]

I was a strong applicant from a random place in Michigan. Someone in the office must have taken a liking to something I wrote and pushed me into the admit pile. It's not possible to take credit for that.

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