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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow. Impressive list so far for Sidwell - Columbia, UPenn, MIT, Stanford, Brown, Yale, Cornell, Darthmouth, Princeton...[/quote]

Athletes and legacies.

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It sounds like your child is not athletic and his/her parents (YOU) didn’t graduate from college. Unless you did graduate from college, but it’s not a “good” college. In that case, your child is also a legacy. It sucks to suck, huh? [/quote]

Hooks should be noted unless that makes you feel insecure. [/quote]

You’re projecting your own insecurity.

When someone complains about “legacy admits,” they should include their alma mater so we can fully understand their level of bitterness (and judge their level of entitlement).

I don’t want to hear CUA graduates complaining about their snowflake being shut out of the Ivies. It’s your fault that you didn’t graduate from a better school. Your child is a legacy too—you just hoped they would do better than you did. [/quote]

Wow. You are massively  insecure.

Hooks matter. That’s why the privates ask where parents went to school when they apply for kindergarten. You can whine about it but that doesn’t change it.

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If you’re on here whining about legacies, it’s important to know where you and your spouse graduated from. Are the schools not good enough for your children? [/quote]

Why is it important? Regardless of where you or I went to college, knowing which accepted students are legacies is important for understanding the data. Don’t you agree?[/quote]

I’m for full transparency across the board. Let’s release legacy admissions data for various schools AND the complainers should also post their alma maters. We should know if your children applied to your institution (and if not, why?) and if they were admitted as legacies. Otherwise, your posts are deeply hypocritical. [/quote]

Legacy is a hook.

Pointing this out is reasonable, regardless of where the person pointing it out went to school.

Where is the hypocrisy?
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Unless your children are first generation, they are legacies somewhere. It’s hypocritical for you to complain about certain legacy admissions, but not acknowledge your own. [/quote]

Legacy is an admissions hook and saying so is not hypocritical or complaining. It’s just a fact.

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I don’t have a problem discussing the status of ALL legacy admits. However, I take issue with the selective criticism displayed by many DCUM posters whose children did not win the Ivy+ legacy lottery.

It is extremely hypocritical for you to criticize an Ivy+ legacy admit, but remain silent when your child is admitted to your (less prestigious) alma mater. Because let’s be honest, you wouldn’t bother with these sour grapes posts if your children benefited from legacy status at a top tier university. [/quote]

Again, it’s not complaining to point this out. It’s reality and better for parents and students to know this when looking at the admissions data from any school, esp one where there are a lot of legacies from top-ranked schools. You seem esp attached to the idea that posters who point this out must have gone to what you would think are inferior schools. Or that only people who went to top-ranked schools are allowed to point this out but those who whose kids “did not win the Ivy+ legacy lottery” are not allowed to. Why is that?

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You’re mistaken. I have no issue with anyone pointing out legacy admissions. However, I guarantee 99.9% of the parents “pointing out” legacy admits didn’t bestow Ivy+ legacy status on their own children. Even though their children are legacies somewhere. They’re not motivated by altruism or some greater good—they’re just bitter. [/quote]

You do have issue with “anyone” pointing this out. You just said you do. If you didn’t, you wouldn’t care where posters went to school. But you really, really do.

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