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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]100% of the kids I know who were admitted in the last 5 years were legacy/double legacy, with the exception of two, both of whom were faculty/staff.[/quote]

Why does the school maintain a desirable standing if they mainly accept legacy, staff children, athletes only?

People want to attend because it’s “elite,” but they are just picking people associated with the school or that have athletic ability.

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You have just summed up the entire Ivy League and now understand why people post on here that you should ignore rankings.[/quote]

Sour grapes. There are tons of highly-qualified - yes, elite - student athletes, children of staff/alumni, etc. They just had a thing that edged them over everyone else. Look at the numbers - these schools could fill their roster many times over with all of the "elite" kids applying. 
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So true about athletes. You cannot just have athletic ability and play D1 sports. You need to practice for years and years and make countless sacrifices to be a recruitable D1 (or for that matter D3) athlete. And you need to do well in school. [/quote]

You need to do relatively well in school to be recruited for Ivy D1 schools...but obviously, you do not need to do well in school to be recruited to say play football for Alabama.  Outside of may 20-30 D1 academic schools, the vast majority of which are considered Lower D1 (from a competitive standpoint)...you just need to meet minimum academic standards.  Even Duke and Stanford players, while having better stats than the average top D1 athlete, have lower standards than the students at the school on average...in the case of Duke basketball, much lower standards.

Not sure why the topic digressed about DMV kids and Wharton.[/quote]

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