The headlines are similar every year: "The Unlikely School Where Students Sweep the Ivy League" "This Essay Got a High-School Senior into 5 Ivy League Schools and Stanford" "Twins Offered a Combined $1.6 Million in Scholarships After Being Accepted to 56 Colleges" I'm sure it won't surprise you to learn that these headlines are very misleading! Let's start with the assumption that getting into all the Ivy League colleges should even be a goal. For most students, elements of