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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]black or Hispanic much better chance with those stats

Is it fair personally I don't think so but it is what it is[/quote]

same with white athletes and white legacy applicants.[/quote]

Legacy is not the advantage that you think it is. I have twice had kids strike out at my alma mater despite scores within their middle 50%. Perhaps if I gave more.[/quote]

+1. Legacy advantage is vastly overstated.[/quote]

Yes, and there are legacies of all races.  My late 80s class at HYPS was almost 40% "minorities" including many Asians.[/quote]

Sigh - your personal experience has no relevance.

"  . . . legacy applicants are likely to be white. More than one-fifth of white applicants admitted to Harvard between 2010 and 2015 were legacies. By comparison, only 4.8% of African American students admitted were legacies. The rate was only slightly higher among Asian American students (6.6%) and Hispanic students (7%). The [b]number of white legacy students admitted to Harvard exceeded the number of African American, Hispanic and Asian American legacy students combined[/b]."  LA Times June 22, 2018.

And while we're talking about this, athletic recruits to the Ivy League are also mostly white:

"61 percent of student athletes last year were white. At elite colleges, that number is even higher: 65 percent in the Ivy League, not including international students, and 79 percent in the Division III New England Small College Athletic Conference, which includes elite liberal-arts colleges like Williams College and Amherst College" . The Atlantic October 23, 2018

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