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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sigh.
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Take a typical college campus: If you take away spots in the freshman class reserved for athletes, development cases, legacies, special cases, you’ve probably taken away a third of your spots,” said Mark Sklarow, chief executive officer of the Independent Educational Consultants Association. “It is, unfortunately, one of the facts of college admission. Colleges try to create a freshman class beyond just the academic numbers.”[/quote][/quote]

Why did he leave out all of the spots reserved for URMs.....and the relaxed admission standards that accompany those spots?[/quote]

Because most school double dip.  URMs generally fit into more than one bucket.  Thats how people may will on affirmative action but lose anyway.  As a top 5 URMs alum, my URM classmates made sure their kids aiming for top schools fit into multiple buckets... Actually, let me correct myself,  I do not know anyone in my network of any race that did not make sure their kid fit in multiple buckets or had multiple hooks.  The group was very successful at top schools.[/quote]

[b]+1. The URMs at my daughter's school that just got into top 15s were either full-pay rich/legacy or recruited athletes.[/quote][/b]

The pp that you plussed one said that she didn’t know any parents who didn’t [i]make sure[/i] that their kid couldn’t fit into more than one bucket. How does a parent make sure that their kid is an URM, full pay/rich legacy, or a recruited athlete? [/quote]

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