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[quote=Anonymous]I've been an HYP alumni interviewer since the 1990's. Every year, some of the legacy admits are among the top applicants by any objective measure: grades, scores, and extracurriculars. Driven Type A's often raise driven Type A's. Every year, however, there are also some legacies who get in who have lower grades, lower scores, and less impressive extracurriculars than many of the unconnected applicants that we've seen that year. The gap is larger with very wealthy parents. It's also kind of disturbing how entitled my fellow interviewers feel about spots in the class for their own kids. I'd be happy to get rid of legacy admissions. I suspect my child won't apply, as their interests lie elsewhere. The idea that, out of all of the universities in the world, my kid would pick the same one I picked decades ago seems statistically unlikely.[/quote]
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