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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Yes, but they are simultaneously claiming they are really smart and their kids are also really smart. So while you are clearly correct, it’s still something to see.

It is curious to see people who claim they are really smart demonstrate such profound numerical illiteracy. [/quote]

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