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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is true that at least half of the early slots go to legacies, URMs and athletes. [/quote]

There are many ways to determine who's best - not just SAT scores. And for the record, legacies have higher grades and SATs than the overall pool (not surprising since they are born with above average advantages). And, athletes and URM at the Ivies have scores well above the top 25% of students at state flagship schools and would easily qualify for the merit scholarships at pretty much everywhere that offers them. Harvard could never recruit a Stephen Curry because of the Ivy's individual and team academic index requirements. An Ivy "dumb jock" typically has higher scores and grades than the brainiac at UMD.[/quote]

Why do you post such nonsense when you can get accurate information via Google in a couple of minutes. If you look at the Common Data Sets for Harvard and UMD you would find that the bottom 25% of Harvard students (your "dumb jocks") have math SAT scores under 710 and critical reading scores below 700, whereas the too 25% of UMD students have math scores above 730 and critical reading scores above 690.  So, on raw processing power the better students at UMD outperform the worse students at Harvard, some by quite a lot. If you did a little research you would also discover that Harvard deliberately builds into their classes "the happy bottom third" --- students who they expect to get B-s and Cs, but who are happy to be there because they are into sports, or are legacies or a just there for career reasons.[/quote]

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