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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And, of course, the school would get grief from parents wondering why their higher stats kid got passed over when a lower stats kid got admitted and/or when other kids with those stats always seem to get in.

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From experience, wondering is just a short-lived intermediate stage. You soon realize that the kids that get in with lower stats fit a pattern that does not apply to unhooked white kids.  However, in many private schools there a lot of preferential-access kids, compared to say a suburban public school.[/quote]

From experience, comments like this are frequent when parents believe that GPA and standardized test scores are objective indicators of merit and everything else is unfair advantage.  Since Naviance's way of representing admissions decisions reinforces this mindset.[/quote]

From experience, usually parents with legacy to bequeath say this.  No one is saying that these DCs aren't competitive candidates.  It is a reality that schedule rigor, GPA and test scores don't speak louder than institutional priorities.  Certainly an advantage, fair or unfair,  to those who meet the criteria and that's life.

To the parent that has a legacy, non white you got a twofer.  There are kids out there more qualified than yours because there always are.  I don't know that parents are so much bitter as naturally upset that they tell their kids all their lives to work hard for what they want, only for their kids to become disillusioned.  That's life too and we know it, our kids will learn from their skinned knee.  But for you to suggest that legacy is on average smarter than these kids, that's rather narrow of you.[/quote]

Schedule rigor isn't reflected in Naviance, nor are teacher recommendations, or extracurriculars.  The truth is that, beyond a certain threshold, scores aren't driving these decisions and GPAs per se (vs transcripts/recs) almost never are.  FWIW, my kid didn't apply to the schools where she would qualify as a legacy.  In part, that's because DC got so tired of listening to these knee-jerk dismissals of the accomplishments of other kids who got admitted to the same (HYP) school as one of their parents did.

And your "twofer" comment is so effed up I don't know where to begin....  If there's always someone more qualified, why is it the non-white kid's admission that you resent most? [/quote]

It is true in this area that if a medium-achieving kid is a legacy and a so-called URM he or she can write their ticket to a SLAC or highly competitive university.   It's just reality, and sadly Justice Scalia died too soon to end race-based affirmative action.[/quote]

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