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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am an immigrant (white), so no legacies in my circle.  However, I know 7 kids at Ivies - 3 Cornell, 3 UPenn, 1 Yale; I am sure none are legacies, URM or athletes.  All graduated from public schools.[/quote]

But are they first generation. [/quote]

All the parents have college degrees, some have graduate degrees, mostly from US, so unlikely to count as first gen.[/quote]

You wrote mostly from the US. The students who I know who got in marked that that they are first gen when in fact their parents have university degrees from Asia, Africa, and/or Latin America. [/quote]

We don't know anyone like this. Like PPs have said, the several Ivy admits we know from our public school were Asian and white with grad degree parents, not legacy. In fact the kid we know who had double/several Ivy legacy and is an incredible student,  got rejected at all those schools.  Of the ones accepted,  it broke down to about 4 Asian, 2 white, 1 urm.[/quote]

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