Everyone knows the eight Ivy League universities are extremely hard to get into. The most selective of the bunch, Harvard, admitted only 2,037 of the just over 39,041 people who applied to go there this fall (or 5.2 percent), while the "easiest" Ivy League school to get into (read: still not easy), Cornell, admitted 6,277 of the just under 45,000 who applied (or 13.96 percent).
Still, every year, there's some high achieving high school senior who gets into all eight of the Ivy League schools and ends up on the news (the last two were both from Long Island), although beyond their grades and awards, we rarely hear much more about how they did it, until now.
Business Insider talked to high school senior Brittany Stinson, who was recently accepted into most of the Ivy League, including Yale, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth and Cornell (as well as extremely selective non-Ivy, Stanford). She shared her common application admissions essay with the website, and it was all about Costco. Yes, Costco, the bulk goods grocery chain where you can pick up a 12-pack of toothpaste, a gallon drum of peanut butter and a free sample of everything from pizza bagels to pizza rolls in one trip.
Here are a few samples:
I hope admissions officers are prepared to be flooding with a deluge of essays about grocery stores next fall. You can check out the entire essay at Business Insider.
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