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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Harvard has such a crazy huge endowment that you wonder why they insist on legacy preferences. And legacy + faculty/staff advantage is huge at Harvard. I recently saw an article that 40% of students at Harvard are either legacy, faculty kids and/or recruited athletes. Pretty shocking [/quote]

Helps balance out all the URM kids. Harvard is full of crap[/quote]

I know you are on the same side, but how does this "balance out" the URM kids?  First, I think you mean *affirmative action* URM kids (yes, some would get in w/o that consideration).  Do you really think they are also at 40%???

I also like to repeat that study because people seem to have an exaggerated idea of how many URM actually benefit from affirmative action and actually take up your precious spot at Harvard.    The ALDC (Athletes, Legacy...) students eclipse this number.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/study-harvard-finds-43-percent-white-students-are-legacy-athletes-n1060361

Forty-three percent of white students were found to be ALDC at Harvard. More importantly, a whopping 75% of those ALDC white students would not have been admitted without that leg up.   if you do the math, that means about 32% of white students at Harvard should be getting those affirmative-action-do-you-really-belong-here stares. [/quote]

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