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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OMG how would any school know where else a student athlete committed.  So I know that a very talented hockey player recruit was "stolen" by Harvard after an early commitment to Princeton.  Does that mean all of Harvard is scummy and desperate.  I don't think so...one never knows the situation of individual recruits unless you live it.

I'm convinced this thread was started by the UChicago denigrators so they would have a whole thread to spread their poison as if all the evils of colleges rest solely on Chicago's shoulders.  Too bad they're too busy running their university to focus in on that huge responsibility.   We should hijack this and make it funny as did the earlier poster.
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No, the late admits and forced gap years teases out desperate and scummy admissions trickery to goose stats.[/quote]

Harvard has late admits and forced gap years.  That's what the Z list is. [/quote]

My understanding is Harvard's Z list was to sneak in a few hyper-rich kids. Chicago does this on a large scale to finagle admissions stats.[/quote]

So it'd cease to be desperate and scummy if UChicago were smuggling in rich kids?[/quote]

What kind of rich kid would ask their family to bribe them into UChicago? Daddy please pledge $2million so I can spend 4 years in the Chicago slums surrounded by neurotic passive-aggressive dorks. Just not realistic.[/quote]

A kid who decided to forego his multigenerational legacy at Princeton in order to SCEA Harvard, which turned him down -- as did YPS in the RD round.  Now, faced with the horror and shame that would be Penn (shudder), he decides to go off the grid and settle for the #3 ranked school (tied with Yale) where he can cast himself as a maverick intellectual type while still hanging out with douchey Ec majors who are all headed to Goldman Sachs or McKinsey.  Money well spent to preserve the family's honor!  We're all allowed the occasional erratic genius, especially if he subsequently redeems himself by making tons of money.
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With some college names switching around in the story, this is what actually happened to my kid's roommate!  Parents keep asking her to transfer to the legacy school but she won't even apply.  They are besides themselves.  Meanwhile she's happy.[/quote]

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