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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So interesting. My son has been inclined not to apply because a classmate is a family member of a very high-ranking person (not faculty) at UVA. I wonder if that kid will still get a thumb on the scale.[/quote]

Of course. The kid whose mom was class of '95 and works at a regional law firm in Minnesota is the one they are targeting not the kid who has a dean willing to put in a good word [/quote]

It's really aggravating. The kid is such an inferior candidate. I would love to give more details but it would make everyone so easily doxxable.

Anyway, to speak more generally: in a situation with a smallish school at which only 1-2 students (sometimes 0) are accepted every year, is it a waste of time to apply when you know one seat is a lock for someone already? Or does taking an inferior "connected" student shame the admissions committee into accepting another student or two from the same school, so their favoritism isn't so transparent?[/quote]
I forget where I read this (this board? A book? An article?) but I heard at one of the local privates (St Albany’s?), a dimwit with great connections was accepted into a top school (Chicago or Princeton?). Not wanting to make it look so obvious that this dimwit was admitted solely because of connections and taking a space from a more qualified candidate, that school accepted everyone who applied from his school that year. Granted, it was only 5 kids but still.

I may have gotten some details wrong but that was gist of story.[/quote]

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