research with Yale and testing companies the last 15 years about this question in this topic it showed us and raised this idea so I would say this is so much this let me try to keep it simple and get out here our Board Chair uses the term and therefore does our msn live here use it herself just now the best and the brightest naturally the brightest you know what that means I love the interpretation ability of the admission office to talk about what's the best the best to me is a incredible personality and character endure 4a that makes the school wet is so we can search for that kind of kid in admission process if I was not given that kind of latitude at do my job this is a powerful thing so with that said um I said for a long time we can get any phone calls i recommend this kid to you he's a great kid i said was a great kid mean because i've seen a lot of great kids it make bad choices and then so be either great kid that they are thought of so we've tried to develop some of the language that someone should use to describe someone and ask and you follow up to sort of try to pinpoint those things and things like responsibility we curl the psychology will internal locus of control someone who sees their future is changeable they're responsible for their actions they act that way self-confidence is another one appropriate levels of self-confidence temerity it's a joke but you got to be pretty sure about who you are or do you want to be or are you going to go about becoming that person very important i think the biggest one is certain that intrinsic motivation we present the opportunity you respond to it and we watch that response over a period of time it's a beauty of meeting someone more than once in that process so so the task for you all is engagement authentic live use that word i love the word authentic engagement so i'm giving acting with coaches or teachers or your interviewer or representative school and then through that process and journey back to my opening comments you learn a lot about yourself and you may you may take the world of choke but six months for now i may say it's not for me sunday night school i found this other thing that is me and I barn connect to and that's where you should go that should be your pathway it so what I'm saying is really hard but you're going to learn a lot by starting to ask those questions of yourself what do you want why do you want it but I think it's about engagement from the beginning of the process to the end and again I talked about interpreting extrovert a little bit you know you know I chose a pretty engaging place but there are different ways to engage I think one of the beauties of Choate is the way we celebrate the different types of engagement the norm imean happens to be one with a captain robotics team and other might be self-described has it been on a nerdy sighs Chuck loves those kids if it raises those kids and they are kind of living the dream as people have a lot of respect and appreciation of communities so I think presenting your authentic self is the biggest countless any applicant and it only comes with time and investment with your family with yourselves with schools and school the people and then where you talked in where you learn I think again movie set for each other go to the college process all the investing putting it now is just helping you move down that road whatever the outcome is you know several months from now so you know I'll give us one tip it on testing just because I sort of mentioned it and it fits into what I just said people ask it was their cut off which is my scores be like I would just say that I used under the spotlight metaphor so if you're getting 99 across the board it doesn't even kind of move on we're going to look and see what you're all about still but if you slide down the scale of testing we're just shining the light very brightly on all the other things about who you are and how your capabilities will make you happy balanced and successful let's show we love some kids who don't take and we think at the end of the day sometimes we're protecting them from their open good we want people to work hard and have building confidence includes some rewards you know we're not instant gratifications will believe me you've got to earn what you get but we also want to see a paid off when you put in a time and effort and for some kids that's not instantaneous it's not you know we played a month later you can be a lifelong probably members of students guys struggling right to the end or graduation it doesn't gave me selected wrong per se but maturity rates and rules are different for everybody and again some of the students sort of operating at the top of the cycle with doing all these amazing things that show there others were just seem to being planted for them and it's like wow look at what's possible maybe they'll eat me and my college years or ten years on college right the male brain finally matures actually get to do some things so I think asking the question used a great word or process is very holistic and will never be the school that gets caught up on a test score we want to we want to get a really good sense for the applicant the person the character that kind of thing so I think that's very P&A I think the other thing is sort of growth mindset just that interest in discovering an awful lot about about of and being being open to taking chances trying new things as parent of three kids I saw them all come in sort of thinking they were on one path and emerging having a had me engaged in all kinds of wonderful activities that it that is defined an awful lot about their last post Jetta