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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There’s a level of naïveté in this thread. Every single bit of information you disclose is available to be used by the admissions officer. If you think that this is just harmless extra information at a top 20 school, you need to talk to former admissions officers.

Higher level degrees and high profile schools put additional attention to the quality of the application, the quality of the writing and the overall applicant profile. It is a higher bar.
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So is it a bad thing to know that kid might be interested in law because they saw a parent in it?  Or hate law because they saw a parent in it?

I mean, most of us become interested in something because we are "near" it or exposed to it.  If my parents are a certain religion, it introduces me to that religion and therefore I get a real sense of maybe what it involves.  Same thing with taste preference.  If I grew up eating a lot of pastas, I'd probably have an opinion about it.

I guess I don't see why it's bad to have high quality of writing either?  When did we view anything high quality as bad?  So now we are supposed to pretend we can't write and have uneducated parents?[/quote]

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