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A humorous article in New Yorker. The title is "Getting in - The social logic of Ivy League admissions". The writer is a Canadian. The article is very funny.

.... More important, academic achievement was just one of four dimensions, further diluting the value of pure intellectual accomplishment. Athletic ability, rather than falling under "extracurriculars", got a category all
to itself, which explains why, even now, recruited athletes have an
acceptance rate to the Ivies at well over twice the rate of other students, despite S.A.T. scores that are on average more than a hundred points lower. And the most important category? That mysterious index of "personal" qualities. According to Harvard's own analysis, the personal rating was
a better predictor of admission than the academic rating. Those with a
rank of 4 or worse on the personal scale had, in the nineteen-sixties, a rejection rate of ninety-eight percent. Those with a personal rating of
1 had a rejection rate of 2.5 percent. When the Office of Civil Rights
at the federal education department investigated Harvard in the nineteen-eighties, they found handwritten notes scribbled in the margins of various candidates' files. "This young woman could be one of the brightest applicants in the pool but there are several references to shyness," read one. Another comment reads, "Seems a tad frothy." One application - and at this point you can almost hear it going to the bottom of the pile - was notated, "Short with big ears."