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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lol no

My kids all got in no legacy not athletic no extraordinary extra curricula

Yale  Princeton Stanford

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Let's try: rural, or parent's blue collar jobs[/quote]

URM? First generation? Low income? Rural? Underrepresented state? [/quote]

I know a family like this in DC and the father was a well known journalist. All the kids to Harvard/Stanford/etc, and the Mom thinks that if your kid didn’t get into an Ivy it was because they just weren’t very smart.  :roll: [/quote]

It's pretty incredible how parents of legacy/VIP admits think their kids were accepted because they "earned it". This is not to say their kids didn't do great in school to have top stats  - they may clearly clear the hurdle for success at the college.  It IS to say that these families somehow think that the legacy/VIP didn't tip the scale for their kid to be chosen over a HUGE number of applicants who had the same stats/EC (and often higher stats/ECs). I'd love for them to see a reality where their kid didn't have legacy/VIP attached and see the outcome. (Note - this wouldn't have applied to URM families up to 2023 because the URM would also factor in. We know many legacy/VIP/URM admits....Penn seems to play prominently in this space in my circles).[/quote]

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