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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/college-acceptance-rates-ivy-league-schools-wealth.html

Basically it seems athlete, monied donor, first gen (the new proxy for race), legacy are about it.

I hate the examples that so many books give for how the balance the athletic “allotment” - they may need a piccolo player in the band. I was in the band at an Ivy; it’s run by the students and there is zero interaction with administrators other than permission to play at games and rent buses. It is nothing like the bureaucracy advocating for athletics. I guess MAYBE at a Big10 school with world class marching band?  But theater and music and debate teams at T25 schools aren’t coordinating with admissions about their future slots or participating population, that’s just a polite fiction, there just isn’t enough administrative support to even make those assessments let alone factor into admittance.

I think the article is actually under reporting the dead zone salary - $222k in manhattan?!  I’m guessing probably $150k to $500k — they are looking for donors and two Fed employees making $180k aren’t going to be writing big checks. [/quote]

DCUM has argued for the longest time that poor white, first Gen students were shut out by wealthy AA students and suddenly being first Gen is a proxy for race? [/quote]

Aggrieved DCUMers will move the URM goalposts. Gotta blame somebody when DC gets rejected.[/quote]

Look they have nothing against extending opportunity to the disadvantaged just as long as their special kid also gets a slot.

It’s fine when SOMEONE ELSE’S kid gets rejected to make room.

Nobody is entitled to a seat at a specific school, not even a 4.5/1600 with a Nobel Prize and an Olympic Medal.

What’s very middle class is the idea that if you follow all the rules very closely you are guaranteed the result you want. It’s incredibly naive.[/quote]

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