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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many parents in my kids' private school flex that they are UPenn legacy or double legacy or even triple legacy and constantly talking about it like it was a big deal. I think UPenn had one of the highest admission rates of the lower ivies in the 90s. Cornell was around 30%. It must be a shock to the system that even UPenn has a single digit acceptance rate now, and legacy is no longer an auto admit like it was back in the day.[/quote]

Oh boy. Legacy was never an auto admit. Sorry to burst your bubble.

And while admit rates were higher the Ivies were not an easy admit back then. They had fewer applicants, but I suspect they were self selecting, and a lot of today's applicants with T/O would never have made the cut back then. [/quote]

Yes, it was a different world back then. The % of people who were prestige whores was much smaller, fewer foreign applicants, fewer applications per person, less grade inflation in high school etc. Now everybody with a 3.8 high school GPA & a Common App account takes a shot a couple Ivies. [/quote]

"W" schools were still strivery though.  My MCPS middle school informed me to take the SATs in 7th grade in 1980!!!  Which I did.  And I received a copy of Strunk&White's Elements of Style as a prize for getting a 580V.

Also, since I moved to the area from the West Coast, I remember there were already massive Duke fans among my peers.  I remember because I'd never heard of it and I wondered why 7th grade boys were so obsessed with going there (early Coach K days).[/quote]

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