Is this a hook?

[Anonymous]

Absolutely a hook at Yale

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I believe the Harvard admissions court case found that having g Harvard professor parents does help with Harvard admissions.

If you are the offspring of two Harvard professors, chances are that you are pretty darn academically capable, both by genetics and by nurturing.

[Anonymous]

What about kids whose parents are on the faculty at the university’s medical/law school? Does that count?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I believe the Harvard admissions court case found that having g Harvard professor parents does help with Harvard admissions.

If you are the offspring of two Harvard professors, chances are that you are pretty darn academically capable, both by genetics and by nurturing.

And having had all those advantages, why do they get the thumb on the scale?

Job perk and hook.