Ivy day 2026

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Anonymous wrote:Ivies still prioritize legacies?

The Ivies will always prioritize legacies. They are the ones that came up with the concept (in order to keep out jews and catholics). I have a lot of respect for JHU, MIT, Amherst, Pomona and other schools that have decided not to give consideration to legacies.

A pretty cool admissions criteria! Just for that exclusive concept I would go look elsewhere. You don’t have to be in an Ivy to succeed in life.

To defend them a little, there are a LOT of schools that once did not accept Jews and other groups, including women - it wasn't just an Ivy thing. And there are a lot of schools besides Ivies that consider legacy. It's about money more than exclusivity, but since most people marry homogenously and therefore breed kids that look like them and worship like them, the effect was exclusivity. In some ways, Ivies have compensated for past transgressions more than other groupings of schools through general financial aid and holistic admissions. That said, legacy priority is on the way out, as it should be.

I am a female child of a Jewish Yale graduate who then went to Yale myself. My dad was the first generation of Jews who were admitted in any numbers. He then was able to pass legacy to me for the first time. He was there when it was male only, but then by the next generation, I could go as a female. So now that a Jewish female can finally pass legacy status on down to my kids, I find is supremely ironic that now people want to get rid of legacy. It's not just females or Jews either. Yale was very diverse when I was there, so all my black and brown and LGBTQ classmates are now passing legacy status on down too.

Really makes me wonder who is opposing legacy status now.

I don't understand your premise, PP. Candidates should be judged as a unit of one: themselves. No one should be admitted based on other people's achievements. What your parents did should be not relevant.

I am a foreigner who is European white and Asian, and culturally Catholic. My kids were born here and are dual citizens. None of that matters. Plenty of people all over the world prefer a college admission system based on individual achievement and not family achievement. Surely that's a no-brainer!

I oppose giving preference to athletes as well, and development cases. I don't want people to bribe their way in, or get admitted because they can make the college sports team win, or their parents attended the school. This is... self-evident! Obvious!

Anyway. Back to Ivy Day.

You're mad that others have an advantage you don't have. My kids are HYP legacies and yours are not- you may not think that's fair.Y our kids are dual citizens, mine are not. I may not think that's fair. Guess what? Life is not always fair.

DP. I’d expect far better from an HYP grad. Second-tier reasoning at best. STEM major?

C- (A+ with grade inflation, though).

Sorry you're having trouble following the reasoning. Ivies aren't for everyone.

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You're mad that others have an advantage you don't have. My kids are HYP legacies and yours are not- you may not think that's fair.Y our kids are dual citizens, mine are not. I may not think that's fair. Guess what? Life is not always fair.

I know lots of Ivy-educated people. None of them would ever say what you just said. It's shameful to want to protect an unfair advantage (which cannot be compared to dual citizenship, which is by definition a function of where you were born and who you were born to, unlike college admissions that are supposed to be about the candidate's achievement).

If my kids were Ivy legacy, I would be secretly relieved that they had a little boost, but I would never admit this in public and I would not push for this legacy system to continue, nor would I defend it like you have done so shamefully. Intellectually, we all know that the legacy system, athlete preference and development cases, should not be continued if we want to level the playing field and encourage merit-based admissions.

You have no good argument, PP. You are an embarrassment.

The lack of self awareness here just made my entire day.

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0/2 including legacy, as expected

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I am grateful that my kid got a second look as a legacy kid, but I do recognize that it’s an unfair advantage. Much about this process is unfair.

I’m fine with legacy going away.

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Anonymous wrote:In at Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Columbia, Penn. Colorado, rural.

Congratulations! I am so happy for your child and family.

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0/3.

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Anonymous wrote:In at Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Columbia, Penn. Colorado, rural.

That's awesome! Which is your DC's top choice?

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Anonymous wrote:In at Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Columbia, Penn. Colorado, rural.

That's awesome! Which is your DC's top choice?

In at Dartmouth, Columbia, Cornell (waitlisted), Northwestern, UChicago, UMich, UNC, Case Western, Pitt, UMD and Wisconsin. Duke pending.

Premed kid - leaning towards Columbia.

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In at Cornell, WL-Dartmouth
No hooks

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Anonymous wrote:In at Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Columbia, Penn. Colorado, rural.

That's awesome! Which is your DC's top choice?

In at Dartmouth, Columbia, Cornell (waitlisted), Northwestern, UChicago, UMich, UNC, Case Western, Pitt, UMD and Wisconsin. Duke pending.

Premed kid - leaning towards Columbia.

Congrats! What kind of high school?

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Anonymous wrote:In at Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Columbia, Penn. Colorado, rural.

That's awesome! Which is your DC's top choice?

In at Dartmouth, Columbia, Cornell (waitlisted), Northwestern, UChicago, UMich, UNC, Case Western, Pitt, UMD and Wisconsin. Duke pending.

Premed kid - leaning towards Columbia.

My student loves Columbia, stem major, not premed. Couldn't be happier with the choice.

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Anonymous wrote:Ivies still prioritize legacies?

The Ivies will always prioritize legacies. They are the ones that came up with the concept (in order to keep out jews and catholics). I have a lot of respect for JHU, MIT, Amherst, Pomona and other schools that have decided not to give consideration to legacies.

A pretty cool admissions criteria! Just for that exclusive concept I would go look elsewhere. You don’t have to be in an Ivy to succeed in life.

To defend them a little, there are a LOT of schools that once did not accept Jews and other groups, including women - it wasn't just an Ivy thing. And there are a lot of schools besides Ivies that consider legacy. It's about money more than exclusivity, but since most people marry homogenously and therefore breed kids that look like them and worship like them, the effect was exclusivity. In some ways, Ivies have compensated for past transgressions more than other groupings of schools through general financial aid and holistic admissions. That said, legacy priority is on the way out, as it should be.

I am a female child of a Jewish Yale graduate who then went to Yale myself. My dad was the first generation of Jews who were admitted in any numbers. He then was able to pass legacy to me for the first time. He was there when it was male only, but then by the next generation, I could go as a female. So now that a Jewish female can finally pass legacy status on down to my kids, I find is supremely ironic that now people want to get rid of legacy. It's not just females or Jews either. Yale was very diverse when I was there, so all my black and brown and LGBTQ classmates are now passing legacy status on down too.

Really makes me wonder who is opposing legacy status now.

I don't understand your premise, PP. Candidates should be judged as a unit of one: themselves. No one should be admitted based on other people's achievements. What your parents did should be not relevant.

I am a foreigner who is European white and Asian, and culturally Catholic. My kids were born here and are dual citizens. None of that matters. Plenty of people all over the world prefer a college admission system based on individual achievement and not family achievement. Surely that's a no-brainer!

I oppose giving preference to athletes as well, and development cases. I don't want people to bribe their way in, or get admitted because they can make the college sports team win, or their parents attended the school. This is... self-evident! Obvious!

Anyway. Back to Ivy Day.

You're mad that others have an advantage you don't have. My kids are HYP legacies and yours are not- you may not think that's fair.Y our kids are dual citizens, mine are not. I may not think that's fair. Guess what? Life is not always fair.

DP. I’d expect far better from an HYP grad. Second-tier reasoning at best. STEM major?

C- (A+ with grade inflation, though).

Sorry you're having trouble following the reasoning. Ivies aren't for everyone.

Memento mori.

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Anonymous wrote:In at Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Columbia, Penn. Colorado, rural.

That's awesome! Which is your DC's top choice?

In at Dartmouth, Columbia, Cornell (waitlisted), Northwestern, UChicago, UMich, UNC, Case Western, Pitt, UMD and Wisconsin. Duke pending.

Premed kid - leaning towards Columbia.

Did you answer a question posed to someone else?

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Huge favor can you people put your stats in the format? it would help all of us in this community who are here.

school (mcps, dmv private)
GPA w x uw
SAT/ACT
EC's scale of 1-5 (5 highest engagement)
National Awards Y/N
Gender
Legacy, URM, Rural etc.

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Anonymous wrote:In at Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Columbia, Penn. Colorado, rural.

That's awesome! Which is your DC's top choice?

In at Dartmouth, Columbia, Cornell (waitlisted), Northwestern, UChicago, UMich, UNC, Case Western, Pitt, UMD and Wisconsin. Duke pending.

Premed kid - leaning towards Columbia.

Congrats! What kind of high school?

Private