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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are going to see more and more reports like this, and school like the Big 3 are going to take college admissions hit as a result.  It won’t happen overnight, but it will happen.  Slowly but surely, it will happen.

https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2023/08/07/georgetown-admissions-advantage-report[/quote]

I doubt it. Because the big 3 are dominated by wealthy kids. Going to elite colleges. Why would that change? The reports just revealed what was already long known, if unofficially. [/quote]

Are you dense?  Being “long known” is one thing.  Being talked about and criticized in the open is another.  There will be more and more pressure on colleges to rethink how they evaluate candidates, especially with the demise of race-based admissions.  This will only hurt, not help, private school applications.

It’s kinda cool.  [/quote]

It will not change.  Someone has to pay for college.  These students do.  No I do not think there will be any hit.  If anything I think this group will grow for most colleges not shrink.[/quote]

Only if the market crashes. Endowments have ballooned in the past couple of years. If anything, schools now have more freedom to ignore wealth in admissions. [/quote]

So you actually think that colleges with large endowments are going to “ignore wealth in admissions”? If so, you are incredibly naive.[/quote]

They are more free to now than ever ever before. MIT JHU CMU and Amherst have already made that decision. [/quote]

A few schools have/will eliminate legacy admissions. Many won’t. That has nothing to do with the size of the endowments. These schools will continue to disproportionately admit wealthy students (legacy or not). [/quote]

The schools doing it are the ones who can afford to and it is because their endowments are big enough to support increased financial aid. [/quote]
the elite schools have enough endowment to at least lower the COA.  But they won't, and use the "but we need rich people to pay for the poor" excuse to keep legacy alive.[/quote]

Those schools do not care about middle class and UMC kids. Tuition is free for poor kids and easily affordable for the rich at elite schools. Academics' disdain for the bourgeoisie is nothing new; it's just that as coa approaches 100k it's now glaringly obvious [/quote]

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