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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here. There is "in addition" to academic merit, and there is "in place of". Athletes recruited by the Ivies need a minimum of a "B-" GPA according to an agreement signed by all the Ivy schools. Try getting in to an Ivy on merit alone with a GPA of B-. The SAT scores of recruited athletes also have a minimum that are hundreds of points lower than a true merit admission. Legacies do not have the same academic records often times - though there are some like my child who probably would have gotten in on his own. Why take the chance though! And plenty of check-the-box applicants who are held to different standards. See the lawsuit against Harvard for that discussion. So I wouldn't jump all over PP for not saying "in addition to" academic merit. That just simply isn't true in a lot of cases. If you can't admit that, then you don't live in the real world. [/quote]

"some like my child who would have gotten in on his own".  Way to slip that one in, thereby undermining everything else you have said.  Couldn't resist tooting your own horn and sticking your foot in your mouth at the same time.  Nice trick.
[/quote]+1.  That poster just doesn't know when to stop talking.[/quote]

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