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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD had similar stats and background and interests. Full pay too. Applied to Y and P. Beaten out by other student at her school with lesser stats and interests - both legacies and URM. Learned hard lesson as UMC white female.

Received large merit scholarships at SLAC backups. Very happy and no longer cares.

Prepare her for disappointment and have good other choices.[/quote]

This is why my child does not tell anyone her stats. [/quote]

Because you are legacy and URM applicant? Because you don’t want your child to have dreams smashed? Because you’re child is a super special weapon? The process is broken and opaque and ridiculous.

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??? She doesn’t tell her classmates what her stats. It’s none of their business and only leads to gossip.[/quote]

Nobody needs to tell anyone what his or her stats are. But don’t underestimate Harvard - or the general public. Harvard knows their own graduates better than anyone else.  They won’t be hoodwinked by their own BS. And the general public job market, when they are shelling out $50,000-$200,000 per year in salary, will not blindly accept HYP degrees. The job market practices, you guessed it - holistic process - and will appropriately down grade HYP degrees. Employers know sometimes they are better off going to top state graduates. [/quote]

My son interviews for one of the top IBs and he is told to hire black/Hispanic applicants and women.[/quote]

Yes because most interviewers tend to choose people like themselves (unconscious bias) so my guess is, if he's being told to hire URMs and women, he is not one of those. By the way, in every company I ever worked in a professional capacity, those spots were taken by white women. Overall, white women have been the great beneficiaries of any sort of affirmative action in the workplace. There's nothing wrong with hiring women, but the point is to hire all sorts of diversity. [/quote]

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