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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don’t smart, high achievers beget smart, high achievers, on average? [/quote]

Yes. Legacy kids must have the stats to get in. I know many who were not strong enough students, and were not admitted. And some with outstanding stats but not admitted.

There's a good article about the real corruption being in the area of athletic recruits, for whom academic standards are substantially lowered by contrast:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/09/opinions/college-admissions-elite-sports-harvard-affirmative-action-macintosh/index.html[/quote]

Wow, recruited athletes get a 1000% bump, and with lowered academic standards to boot? That's not right.[/quote]
+1. Athletic recruiting has 10x the impact of legacy these days, yet legacy gets 10x the attention post-Supreme Court decision.[/quote]

Princeton just had its first NCAA wrestling champion in over 70 years.  In an institution that believes in educating both the body and the mind, why isn’t that level of skill and effort as worthy as being really good at French or astronomy?  I’m sure that wrestler was no slouch in the classroom just to get into Princeton.  Maybe there should be a minimum standard of athletic skill required of the able-bodied applicants — a lot of us as adults put as much or more effort into being fit as we do in the pursuit of knowledge.[/quote]

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