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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Legacy status is way overrated.[/quote]

No. Not everyone who's a legacy gets in, but everyone who gets in who's not an athlete/URM/National award winner is a legacy.

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This is utter BS.  Harvard legacy is about 30% of the class and that's pretty high (Yale is only 12% and Princeton is around 14.5%).  Even in the extreme Harvard case, are you saying the other 70% are athletes/URM/national award winner?  URMs comprise about 30%.  Some of those kids are legacies, so it's double counting, too.  Some are athletes and many are national award winners.

Reality is that about 40-50% of any given class (remembering that Harvard is probably on the extreme side for legacy) get no tips.

This incessant whining is embarrassing.  Would you all prefer a straight national entrance exam? If not, then just stop.

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I'm a NP, but I think the PP(s?) you are responding to are talking strictly about ED acceptances being skewed towards legacy/athlete/URM/national awards, etc., not the end make-up of the class come next Sept.[/quote]

Also, I'm referring to acceptances among private schools in the DC area. There is an overabundance of not just Harvard, but any top college, legacies, so it is very, very difficult for a non-legacy to get admitted. I know a kid at a top 3 whose parents went to Harvard and Yale, but didn't even bother applying EA to either one because there was so much competition within the class for those spots. So the kid applied early to another top 20 school and was admitted, and now can enjoy the rest of senior year. [/quote]

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