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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“The record 11.8 percent admission rate for Harvard's class of 1999 is significantly lower than rates at other Ivy League schools, ...“

Has it ever been easy?[/quote]

It’s never been easy for your typical kid. It’s always been significantly easier for connected kids.

I went to a NE boarding school. [b]They told us that before about the 1990s, kids essentially signed up for HYP like you would an intramural softball team[/b]. It isn’t like that anymore, but my high school sends roughly 25% of its graduates each year to an Ivy League school. The process remains deeply unfair. [/quote]

100% bullsh*t. Obama was rejected from all the Ivies in 1980 and had to transfer into Columbia.[/quote]

Yes, Obama went to that super well known New England Boarding School in Hawaii.  Exactly the same.  How could we all be so stupid. [/quote]

I personally know a dozens of smart rich white men who went to NE boarding schools in the 80s and were rejected from Ivies. They ended up at liberal arts colleges. They're now all in their 50s and multi-millionaires, so it's not as if they were unmotivated layouts, either. It is impossible for the Ivies to have taken every clever white prep / boarding alum in any decade.[/quote]

This raises the question about whether they are multimillionaires because of the college they attended or the value of pre-existing family connections/networks/seed money.[/quote]

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