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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Legacies, Athletes, Donors - 30-35% of admits
Underrepresented (low income, race, state, rural, etc) - 20-25%
International - 20-25%
Exceptional Academics/EC's - 5-10%

Now you end up 10-20% open places for all others.

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Right - so ideally, those 10-20% plug into the needs/wishes/wants of the business (e.g., the university). [b]Do your research on the strategic plan of a university, where they are expanding departments, searching high/low for new students. If a department gets a $25-50M grant to do something, you can bet they want more students.[/b][/quote]

That kind of research does not move the needle much because it does not correlate much with admissions. This is mostly nonsense spouted by college counselors.

Chemistry department gets $25 million at Princeton. You research this and apply as Chem major at Princeton? First we dont know how much of the grant is for something other than to fund students, maybe a lab. Second, they might use the funds to pay for a certain category of students - females in Chem or lower income students in Chem, etc. Third, even if they take a 5 more students that is hardly going to make the admissions any less competitive.
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Maybe not chemistry.

But last year Georgetown launched a brand new Environment & Sustainability BS program.  That got to mean something.  It usually indicates E&S is now their institutional priority.  Do they want more E&S students?  I bet they do![/quote]

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