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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Great! They're bringing back the tests. To truly want to see who has the chops, they need to do away with super scoring. One and done and decide. [/quote]

Some I think look at that too.

Georgetown requires all tests.  But that didn’t help my kid EA anyway. UW 4.0 and a 36ACT (not SS).  Legacy is huge there. Legacy get in at 38% where it was 5% acceptance EA early round for kids that weren’t.

That is where schools could really step up. Stop taking less qualified kids, lessee merit just because daddy went there and grandpa too.[/quote]

Legacy will be much harder to displace.  The problem is that legacy is popular with all graduates across all races.  You have plenty of URM graduates that are against removing legacy because finally their kids can benefit.[/quote]

UVA is dumping it next year. Hopkins already dumped it. Many ivies don’t give it much weight and it only applies to undergrad and a parent (not more distant relative). Georgetown’s policy is incredulous.  [/quote]

Hopkins dumped it years ago.  Ivies actually do give it a decent amount of weight.  I believe the stats show much higher acceptance rates for legacies at many Ivies (though still overall low).  Definitely Princeton legacy acceptances are much higher than overall acceptance rate.

I never even think of legacy in the context of state schools...was it ever really a big factor at UVA?[/quote]

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