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[quote=Anonymous]Harvard routinely turns down kids with perfect grades and scores and routinely takes kids with high but less than perfect grades and scores. Legacy matters and it’s different from development (aka big donors, who may or may not have kids who qualify as legacy). In a situation (e.g. an elite private HS, a well-regarded public magnet) where lots of applicants have great academics and respectable but hardly world-class ECs, legacy is one attribute that makes an applicant standout from a pack of others who look pretty damn similar. 20:37 misunderstands the process in two ways. First, Secondly, because the first evaluation is the applicant in the context of his or her own class, the all things [/quote]
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