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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Legacy status is way overrated.[/quote]

Being a legacy is an enormous advantage. It gets kids admitted to schools that otherwise would not seriously consider them. You don't have to take my word for it. There's a big court case dealing with Harvard's admissions policies. You can read all about it, and get it straight from the horse's mouth. [/quote]

Being a legacy is an enormous advantage, but not necessarily in the way you posit.  Yes, a number of dolts likely get admitted due solely to legacy status, but it's more often the case that two otherwise equal applicants are differentiated by legacy status.    All the Harvard lawsuit provides you is an percentage - legacies get in at a rate 6-7x higher than non-legacies, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they would not otherwise seriously consider them.  At most of these schools, a fairly substantial percentage of applicants are 'qualified' for admission, and legacy is one way to make a decision. [/quote]

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