Here Are The Secrets Inside Your College Admissions File
If you thought it was kinda bs, you were right.
Have you ever wondered what exactly happens when admissions officers look at your file, and what actually helps you get in to college? Buzzfeed News found out.
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This is Molly Hensley-Clancy, Buzzfeed Education Reporter and Yale grad.
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Molly got to see all the admissions files Yale had kept on her, thanks to the rules of the Family Education Rights Privacy Act, before they were destroyed by most colleges.
She went to the basement of Yale Admissions and read a manila folder that held what had previously been ~~a mystery.~~
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In the file, Molly found her high school career, personality, and achievements boiled down to a series of numbers, a set of bullet points, and a paragraph.
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