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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Oh please. The unfair advantage to lesser academic/intelligent students because if the fixation on increasing First Gen and URM numbers and the number of students falsifying one or both of those hooks is what has them mad. If you look at the demographics at most colleges they in no way, shape or form come close to the actual demographics in the US. Harvard President : enough said[/quote] Do you honestly believe the kids getting W/L, deferred and rejected from South Carolina, Auburn, Tennessee, Clemson, TCU and Alabama are "losing spots" to First Gen and URM students? I'm sure there will be more 1st Gen kids to meet the new US News metrics, but these schools will continue to be overwhelmingly white. Asian kids don't even apply to those schools in any significant numbers. So it's the same old problem - 1)people don't do their homework so don't know the difference between reach/target/safety and 2) too many kids applying to the same 50-60 schools and PP's whose kids are applying to 20+, within that same list of schools. Most private schools don't allow that many apps and no experienced counselor would support that approach. Then people like PP create hysteria with their "bloodbath" language even though her DS was accepted to 7-8 schools, so people submit even more apps, and the crazy cycle continues. [/quote]

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