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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]3.8, 2320, various ec's but nothing to knock your socks off. no hooks.[/quote] What are hooks?[/quote] Ok I googled http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/1921183/ So legacy, affirmative action, maybe champion athlete?[/quote] Does legacy even help these days at the ivies, I though GWB kind of soured that?[/quote] 15-year Harvard interviewer here. It helps. It's a mixed bag, because every year, some of the top applicants, by any measure, are legacies. Also every year, there are kids who get in whose record is just a bit below the top tier of applicants, and those kids wouldn't have gotten in without an alumni parent.[/quote] Of course being a legacy helps. HYP et al accepts ~ 6% of applicants (1 out of 10) from the general pool but the acceptance rate rises to ~33% (3 out of 10) for legacies. Big difference.[/quote]
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