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I took this off the main page because the second-level justifying edit raise serious questions about the validity of the original entry.
- Rory from Gilmore Girls gets into Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. While she's portrayed as very smart, the likelihood of that happening is virtually nonexistent while her equally smart friend does not get in despite having more outside activities, volunteer work, etc.
- Paris was rejected from Harvard because of her behavior in the interview. Also, she doesn't make valedictorian or salutatorian, so her final GPA is lower than Rory's and a boy who transferred schools twice in one year and took time off to perform Into the Woods on Broadway (it's probably still exceptionally high, since she would have been complaining otherwise, but it still casts some doubts on her academic performance). Rory was valedictorian, gained some extracurriculars/volunteer work, and is charming enough to wow her interviewers.
I never watched the show; which part(s) of this are accurate?
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This is somewhat accurate. Colleges do look at both grades and extracurricular activities, but while some schools put more weight on extracurricular activities, grades and the rigor of a student's classes usually get the most weight. If schools interview applicants, that can have a considerable amount of weight, too.
Huh. This doesn't exemplify artistic license at all.
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This trope would do better as "Artistic License - Admissions," since many of the same concepts apply to admissions at the preschool, elementary school, and secondary school levels.
TLP thread that somehow didn't get attached to this: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=1hv7b5x5dxlilth8zz7dwxgg