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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Just because a MIT doesn't provide a preference/tip/hook for legacy applicants doesn't mean that there aren't plenty of legacy students there. Notice that they don't report any data on legacy, including how many just happen to have had a parent or other relative who attended. I have a limited data set, but MIT is the most common destination of the children of the MIT alums I know (30-40% of their kids). Most of the advantages of legacy (and faculty brats) are the socio-economic privileges of being the scion of well-to-do, highly educated parents.[/quote]

Are you saying it's possible to buy your way into MIT? Color me skeptical. [b]They don't seem like the kind of place that will let you in if you don't have the smarts but your parents have piles of money. [/b]

The "advantage" of being the child of an MIT alum is not their money, but genetics. Smart parents tend to have smart kids.[/quote]

NP: I dunno--they looked past Jeffrey Epstein's record and let his wacky pseudo-science influence the Media Lab so I don't think they get some special disinterested meritocracy pass.  But I don't think it's the case that you'd get in without the gpa/sat, rather that when there's 100 kids with requisite GPA/SATs for 1 slot there may be side ways for legacy to give a leg up.  I honestly don't know.[/quote]

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