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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Being a legacy is an enormous advantage. It gets kids admitted to schools that otherwise would not seriously consider them. [/quote] What you describe may have been true decades ago, but is no longer accurate in 2018. The applicant pools are way bigger now. Legacies who are admitted, but they were already qualified on the merits and the legacy status was the tiebreaker in their favor. The notion that today's legacy applicants are somehow less qualified is a myth. This isn't to say that they didn't benefit, but on paper, they were almost certainly worthy of admission. There are too many qualified applicants vying for basically the same number of spots as when we were kids, and legacy status is one of the few ways to break ties or make close calls.[/quote]
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