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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From what I have seen, legacy+cash or URM is the only way to go to HYPS. Cornell and Dartmouth don't seem to care as much about the URM representation.[/quote]

Then you haven’t seen much. Unhooked white and Asian kids still make up the largest portion of every HYPS class. [/quote]

"Unhooked white and Asian kids?" Probably not. In fact, it's pretty much statistically impossible.

For the class of 2021, 75.9% are white or Asian.  But overall, 16% of the class are first generation, 8.7% are from rural areas, 17% are legacies.  In past years, 20% were recruited athletes, and another 10% are walk on "soft" recruits, 10% are "Director's List" (big donors), and 1% are faculty children. Those categories add up to 82.7%.  First Gen and Legacies are obviously mutually exclusive, and together those two are 33%.  Even if you only allow for those two and assume the categories of hooks are evenly distributed amongst the races, you're down to 42.9% unhooked white & Asian kids (this is probably generous, based on the race of alumni historically, I have a suspicion that the legacy population is probably disproportionately white, but I don't care enough to look it up).

That's before you get to the other 41% of "hooks."  In fact, the percentages of hooks (not even counting for race) adds up to 82.7%. The total non-white, non-Asian population admitted is 24.1%.  Even allowing for some overlap between hooks (First gen/recruited athlete? Legacy/Director's List? Rural/first gen?), there's a minimal number of slots left for the "unhooked white and Asian" kid.  There are obviously some. But no way is it the "largest portion."

https://features.thecrimson.com/2017/freshman-survey/makeup-narrative/

https://veritasessays.org/college-admissions-blog/posts/types-of-students-admitted-to-harvard-requirements[/quote]

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