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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m kind of annoyed by all the emphasis on college admission - it makes the high schools take primarily kids who will have the hooks (legacy, athletics) [/quote]

What do you think they should emphasize, summer vacations?!?  These are High school seniors.[/quote]

I think they should emphasize academic and extracurricular achievement. Not just legacy and sports.[/quote]

It’s not a zero sum game, the legacies also need great academics and extracurriculars/sports to get in.  It’s gotten that competitive.[/quote]

Legacies have a 33% chance of admission at Harvard vs 3% for general population. I doubt legacies are 11x more accomplished [/quote]

This maybe true for the legacy population at large but not at places like STA.  There are probably 20 kids in my kid's class who are legacy for Yale.  twenty more for Harvard (some overlap) . And on and on. even more if you count law school, medical school, business school etc. it's absurd.  Only a tiny, tiny handful of these kids will get in.  (And of course, not all will even apply). But the numbers in some classes at these schools are absurd. You can't shake a hand at a parent's event without shaking a double Ivy of some variety.  legacy only goes so far for admissions with this degree of over-saturation. [/quote]

STA has 75 boys in a class. 20 boys with Harvard or Yale legacy in one class is a patently absurd claim[/quote]

It's 85 boys. And between all the professional school degrees it's mighty close. Figure 4 degrees per kid.  That's 340 degrees per grade.  Easily 20 are Yale and 20 are Harvard.  Easily. [/quote]

You’re deluded. You realize there are other colleges besides Harvard and Yale?[/quote]

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