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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“…It became clearer and clearer to me that the admissions gold mine was a male student who didn’t need any financial aid. I saw so many of them. Some were actually good and deserving students. But others fit a similarly bleak profile: students with mediocre grades from fancy private schools, with a year of postgrad at prep school to make their GPAs less frightful-looking. Hockey recruits. Lacrosse recruits. Basketball recruits. If these were full-pay kids, they were more likely than not to be admitted. Even though I scored them accurately and fairly according to our guidelines, and even when I wrote scathing rejection notes, I knew in my gut that most of them were going to get in anyway, the same way I knew that some of the poorer students for whom I fiercely advocated were not. It all came down to the limited number of spots for students who need financial aid. If a student could pay full tuition, he was immediately more desirable. (Even though we were specifically looking to beef up the number of men admitted, full-pay, mediocre white girls could sometimes skate by too.)”

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Being need blind in name only is the whole basis for the 568 coalition lawsuit. I really hope it goes on long enough for more discovery to become public [/quote]

These schools could never afford to be fully need blind, they need some tuition to survive and they need kids who are likely to make a lot of money and give donations as alumni. That’s why legacy preference isn’t going away at the Ivys unless the issue is forced[/quote]

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