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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The vitriol against Questbridge students is interesting. They are by and large exceptionally good students who grew up in challenging circumstances. And this is where the upper class moms are throwing their rage and resentment?

But not the middling "athletes" who are taking 40 percent of all spots at Williams and Amherst? Or the 25 percent of "athletes" at Dartmouth.

These are mediocre "athletes" who do not have what it takes to compete at a serious D1 school. And yet they are afforded all sorts of privileges at Ivy and D3 schools.

But the well to do moms are going to blame the poors for why little timmy didn't get into a good school.

Very suburban DC.

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People here will defend athlete admissions by posting the stats of their “elite-level” child whose SAT is slightly above their lac’s 25th percentile. I’ve given up on combatting it, because they don’t see the issue with a two tier admission system where the bottom of the class can all be athletes from very similar backgrounds.[/quote]

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