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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry, but I'd rather spend the $6000 on building their intellectual horsepower. My kids were all good athletes but size and speed were not in their gene pool. My son was a varsity tennis player (good but not great) but he really got into science so he went to a couple of science camps. He went to Harvard and he is now a doctor. It's unlikely that tennis would have gotten him to the same place.[/quote]

So he is a doctor now, this was what?  20 yrs ago.  To get into Harvard now, he’ll have to be an outstanding athlete AND outstanding in the sciences or whatever.  My friends and I like to joke that we would not have gotten into our respective ivies if we applied now.[/quote]

No worries, today he'd still have the (((legacy))) credentials he had back then.[/quote]

Of course he will and legacy admissions have held steady at 1 out of 3.  Much easier than the less than 5% admitted from general admissions.

But you did not mention that he had legacy status in your original post where you implied being good in the sciences and being a middling athlete was enough to get into Harvard:  Certainly a bit disingenuous.[/quote]

He didn't have legacy status (I wish!) but he was and is really smart. It was his essay that made the difference which amazed us given he didn't share it with us.[/quote]

Neither did I but that does not mean I’ll get in now...  20+ yrs ago, admissions rate was around 10%.  Now it is less than 5%.

I know several kids who are currently attending Ivies or equivalent like MIT and got into multiple ones:  what they all have in common is that they were outstanding academically and nationally ranked in the top 50 in their sport for their age.[/quote]

My son is a freshmen at Princeton and he is not a legacy, not a top 50 in a sport, not a minority but he is really smart. Frankly, the odds of you knowing several kids ranked in the top 50 in their sport is statistically impossible. [/quote]

I know several including 3 currently at Princeton.  Not legacies or minorities and 3 different sports so not statistically impossible.  Their parents were all ivy legacies but not Princeton legacies.  [/quote]

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