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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Schools don’t have 25% URM, legacy, or athletes.... so who else is in the bottom quartile?[/quote] Harvard looked for a “happy bottom quarter” (given that the alternative might be suicidal former-valedictorians). Legacies and kids of wealthy/powerful foreigners were part of it, but so were exceptional kids whose center of gravity just wasn’t academic. Some of those kids were artists or people bent on saving the world. Might not have great test scores or GPAs, but could well be people whom the school would be happy to claim as alumns somewhere down the line. Personally, I might well admit a “March for our Lives” founder who’d fall in the bottom quarter of admittees over a kid with perfect grades and scores but nothing else to recommend him/herself.[/quote]
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