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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We're gonna need a really big, flashing neon VBA sign for your 2nd post.  So nice that you can be big donors.  BTW, my oldest, a Princeton legacy by virtue of DH, got in without our contributing big bucks, though he did rock the SATs.  Fortunately, he has cultivated a nice sense of self-deprecating humor to avoid being an insufferable a-hole.  I'd work on that if I were you, PP. [/quote]

So he got in b/c of his legacy status. [b] I always assume if someone is a legacy at an Ivy they got in b/c they are a legacy[/b] and so does everyone else including most legacies except you apparently.  Being a big donor is another plus.  Get over yourself.[/quote]

if someone said this about a minority applicant in reference to affirmative action, the third world war would break out.  they are similar, if not identical, conclusions.  loser legacies don't get into top tier schools purely because of legacy status any more than loser minorities get in purely because of their minority status.  [/quote]

Both are worth at least 100 SAT points. There have been lots of studies on this. I don't want to get into a spat about this issue, because on DCUM it would get really ugly really fast. But the studies are definitive.[/quote]

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