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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All of the information that people are looking for is available directly from Yale.  The majority of students they admit are non-URM, non-athletic recruits who are not legacies.  Something like 65-70% are not hooked.  That is a fact.  People just don't want to hear the message that they were denied on their own merits or due to a highly idiosyncratic process.  Further, any attempt to project reasons or advantages onto a sample as small as 10 students is spurious.  In other words, the is no information of any value derived from speculating about this group, especially without any knowledge of academic qualifications of the students.

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No one is speculating about this group of students, beyond the initial factual observation that 10 admits from one class this size seems unusual. Parents have a legitimate interest in understanding this - parents at SFS, potential applicants, and parents of children in other schools. If 10 kids won an Intel price in one class that would be a fair question.  If 10 kids dropped out senior year that would be a fair question.     A further reasonable question was raised regarding the role of privates in locating qualified URM students in general.  Your post is the only attack in this sequence.   
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What "attack" are you talking about?  Attack against your narrative?[/quote]

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