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[quote=Anonymous]I've seen college admissions play out the last 2 years at two different Big3 schools as I've had kids in both years. Legacy admissions to top20 schools were entirely qualified kids. In many cases, the legacies were the most qualified kids who applied. In many others they were just as qualified as kids who did not get the spots. Many under qualified legacies applied (there were many who shot their shot) but they did not get in. I get that it's easy to think that a bunch of mediocre rich legacies are getting in but at least in these small pools of local private school kids, I did not finf this to be the case at all. Maybe it's different in NYC privates where there are gazillion dollar donations involved. But I would guess that those kids are also qualified. Successful people tend to be smart and smart adults tend to have smart kids. My own kids each got into Ivy league schools and my husband and I each went to schools ranked over 100. [/quote]
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