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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just sort the table based on the 75 percentile SAT scores, it pretty much gives you the picture what school student body qualities are. Some are called "elite" for a reason. Not necessarily true for an individual student, but true for the whole student body. No need for the endless argument.

CalTech     1600
Harvard     1600
Princeton   1600
Chicago     1590
Yale          1590
Columbia   1570
MIT           1570
Stanford    1570
Vanderbilt  1570
Dartmouth 1560
Harvey Mudd 1560
Williams    1560
Duke        1550
Northwestern 1550
Rice          1550
WashU      1550
Brown       1540
Pomona     1540
UPenn       1540
Amherst    1530
CMU         1530
Swarthmore 1530
Carleton    1520
Cornell      1520
Notre Dame 1520
Tufts         1520

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That Harvard number is surprising given all the media stories about how many legacies they admit.

So all Harvard legacies are amazingly smart?[/quote]

Yes!  They out score most candidates and present better applications or should I say present applications that are attractive to Harvard![/quote]
But these numbers are the 75th percentile, most legacy are in the 1-50th percentile or bottom half of the class. [/quote]

Citation needed.[/quote]

Harvard publishes a lot of stats in alumni publications every year and in the Crimson. Legacies stats are near the top. Generations of educated propels preform well. Alumni know what their kids need to do and what they need to take. At graduation all my former classmate’s kids were racking up honors. The alumni kids were very competitive and graduated with honors. They also had all the support they needed to thrive at Harvard unlike kids who cane from families that did not know what to expect.

The same thing repeats in the work force. Children who go into similar fields as their parents have advantages. This is not rocket science. [/quote]

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