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[quote=Anonymous]What matriculation data obscures is the fact that so many of the admits are legacies, athletes, scholarship URMs, and children of famous politicians, judges, diplomats, etc. In some cases, there are children of donors or kids with serious connections to the school. It's been said an infinite amount of times, but unhooked students receive minimal benefit in the college admissions process at these schools. You'll see this fall of senior year when they have the "heart to heart" conversation about college admissions. You'll be dejected when you see the scattergrams where the 3.4 GPA/1390 SAT kid get into Duke while the 3.8 GPA/1540 SAT kid got outright rejected because they weren't an "institutional priority." [/quote]
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