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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Perhaps some were legacies.

Why does it matter unless you are suggesting that they weren’t otherwise qualified? [/quote]

I'm not suggesting this at all--the one I knew was first or second in the class.  Just wondering (as someone with white, upper NW kids who will go to Wilson in 1-2 years) who actually gets into the Ivys.  The chatter among my upper NW neighborhood is always, "oh Wilson sends kids to Harvard and Yale every year".  Just wondering who these kids are.  If they're all minorities I actually think that's GREAT (I know you won't believe me but I honestly do).  Neither my husband and I attended one and are under no delusion that our kids will either.    [/quote]

Outstanding students with something else Yale (and Harvard, and Princeton) wants/needs to construct its ideal class.

That tends to be 1) Legacies 2) Legacies who are also recruited athletes 3) recruited athletes 4) first-generation college students 5) kids who have done something truly extraordinary -- such as Jackie Corin and David Hogg from Parkland, Florida or 6) stand-outs in academics (nationally recognized) in academics, music, etc.

Each year some who are not any of the above get in. But it is almost undiscernable to those of us on the outside.

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