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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

You're assuming the legacy qualifications mirror the qualifications of the applicant pool.  Not saying it does or does not, but unless you can compare the two it's hard to speculate how [b]much[/b] of a difference it really is.[/quote]

I've heard from friends who interview for some of these schools that the legacy pool generally is of higher quality than the general applicant pool.  Which makes sense considering these are the children if Ivy Leaguers who grew up with all the advantages.[/quote]

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