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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Young, Gifted, and Not Getting Into Harvard" means one thing for sure...

The kid is Asian or White.[/quote]

That is just complete bullshit. I think people who make statements like this must have a very shaky grasp of basic math. There are THOUSANDS of gifted students nationwide. Harvard only accepts about 1900 of them each year.[/quote]

yes, but who are they accepting -- and what edge do THEY have. [b]My guess is race/ethnicity is definitely a factor[/b].[/quote]

Yeah, they're white.  Thirty percent of Harvard admits are legacies, at a school was overwhelmingly white at the time when the parents of today's applicants were attending.  Today's college applicants were born around 1999.  Assuming an average parental age of about 35 for your highly educated parents, those kids had parents attending Harvard in the mid-1980s.  The percentage of Black students at Harvard then?  Under 5 percent.

The single biggest advantage an applicant can have is legacy status, but the group of Black and Latino applicants who can claim that advantage is incredibly low.  Thus is privilege perpetuated.  [/quote]

BS. My DS didn't get into Dartmouth where his dad attended but somehow was good enough for Stanford.[/quote]

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