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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Or maybe she's not eager to have her kid surrounded by kids who have been raised by parents with attitudes like yours. If she gets in, it must be because she was a legacy; if she doesn't, she's a loser whose Mom must have been lying. Charming. [/quote] At our school, when helping make the college list for the applying students, the college counselors often suggest that the student include the parent's alma mater as an option, including as a "reach school," because of the legacy effect. There are also students who are legacies at a particular college for whom that college is not a "reach." But with admissions rates at Ivies between 6-8 percent, by definition such schools must reject many highly qualified applicants. Thus, it makes a lot of sense for even the most objectively qualified applicants to try to leverage legacy status. It's not a badge of dishonor.[/quote]
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