Every admissions cycle ends the same way for me, with a period of reflection. What worked. What didn’t. What the strongest applicants had that the rest didn’t.
This year, the answer was unusually clear.
The students with the most compelling applications in the 2025-26 cycle were not the ones who did the most things. They were the ones whose achievements t…
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