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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is there a school that most of these extraordinary kids are going to now?  It seems the Ivies are mostly athletes, legacies, and URM picks.[/quote]

You are spewing inaccurate nonsense.
Specious arguments and assumptions.
The Ivy League schools are not mostly athletes, legacies, and URM picks.
Further, you assume that NO athletes, legacies, and URM picks are extraordinary kids.

Some extraordinary kids can be found in every school.

The highest concentration of extraordinary kids can be found at:
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford
MIT
UPenn
Cal Tech
Duke
Columbia
Chicago
Williams
Amherst
Swarthmore
Pomona

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Harvard
athletes - 20%
legacy - 36%
URM - 14%
donors - 5%

There is overlap but a good percentage of the class does fall into these categories.[/quote]

More than half of the Harvard athletes and legacy happen to be very strong students too. So it's not as you fully expect. You'd be mistaken if you believe Harvard admits large volumes of mediocre legacies. On average the legacy admitted pool is worse than the non-legacy admitted pool, but it's still quite strong and they tend to flock into top consulting, law, finance, and NGO jobs later on.[/quote]

This is not about Ivy, athlete, legacy, or URM bashing. But if you don't belong in one of those categories, where is a brilliant student going to go? There are only so many spots left. But, yeah, I know a very mediocre student who is going to an Ivy as an athlete. It's a scam.[/quote]

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