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[quote=Anonymous]“Amanda has two kids in college and two in high school and lives in Westport, Connecticut. She sums up this research as follows: “As a white wealthy parent of a white child, I will tell you they have no f-ing chance of getting in anywhere unless they have a legacy.” Amanda’s ex-husband works in finance, but she says there’s no “grandpa who wants to spend all their money on a building” waiting to contribute to the financial picture. Amanda’s daughter Marie attended private school, speaks Mandarin, had an unweighted GPA of 4.1, and earned a 1560 on the SAT. “Her extracurriculars would give away her identity, but they checked all the boxes,” Amanda says. Marie applied to 22 schools. “She’s brilliant, and she got in nowhere,” Amanda says. “She got into no decent school.” But of course, that’s an exaggeration; she was accepted to four of her safeties. Marie currently attends a university that did not make the U.S. News & World Report list of top-50 public schools. Amanda tells me, “She’s happy but often says, ‘Mom, I just wish I hadn’t studied. I would have gotten into the exact same schools.’” And Marie is probably right.” 
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/college-acceptance-rates-ivy-league-schools-wealth.html[/quote]

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