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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whose the crazy person who thinks legacy is a huge boost?[/quote]

Um, anyone who has read any of the widely available statistical analyses done on data that is now public? Are you numerically illiterate?[/quote]

We aren’t talking about the historical data over the past few decades, recent data shows that legacy nothing more than a tiebreaker, if that.[/quote]
Even if what you are saying was true (which it is not for a double legacy), you seem to have some logic problems. When we know a double legacy kid got in, that is why. The fact that many legacies don’t get in is immaterial. If anything, it points to the difficulty of admission generally; this only underscores the point that the double legacy who did get in would have been rejected “but for” legacy status.[/quote]

One thing that has been eye-opening in this thread is the rank numerical illiteracy on display from the legacy parents. [/quote]

Ego-preserving blindness. [/quote]

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