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[quote=Anonymous]I grew going to school with a very wealthy family who got several kids into Harvard through being a big donor and a legacy. However, all of the kids were smart--Harvard was definitely a reach, but it wasn't like they were C students with horrible test scores. At our school, typically people who got into Harvard/Yale/Stanford/Princeton/MIT/Caltech were in the top 2% of their class. The kids in that family who got into Harvard were in the top 10%--all AP and honors coursework, varsity sports, decent extracurriculars, etc. Without the big donations, they probably would have gone places like Penn, Northwestern, Amherst, etc. One sibling was not that smart, and went to a pretty middling school. I think this sort of situation is more common--those smart, could totally do the work and succeed at Harvard sort of people, but don't get in because they haven't cured cancer at age 18 and maybe have a B+ or two on their transcripts get a bump from Dad's check.[/quote]
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