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[quote=Anonymous][quote=SAM2]But my point is that the applicant from a top private school who is not legacy/athlete/diversity is not really directly competing for slots with the legacy/athlete/diversity applicants at her school. She's definitely competing, but that competition is far broader than just her private school.

It's not as if a college sets a quota of 4 slots from a particular high school, and then assigns those 4 slots to legacy/athlete/diversity applicants first, with leftover slots going to other applicants without such characteristics. Each applicant is competing on a nationwide (or at least city/region-wide) level. Indeed, if an applicant is relying on an athletic scholarship to get admitted, I suspect her [u]real[/u] competition is with all the other athletes across the country playing that same sport, since I imagine each coach will only have a limited number of recruiting slots to award. (In other words, the womens crew coach cannot designate 300 women as priority admits because they happened to row in high school.)[/quote]

SAM2, I'd really like to believe this, because my DC is at one of the most competitive high schools in the area.  But from what we've seen in upper grades at school, and from what I've read in various places, unfortunately it does seem to work out this way.  Do you have a source for this, or personal inside knowledge?
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