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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only correct response, is " yeah I know I am lucky to have that added hook on my application. Thank you mom and dad!"

There's no reason to pretend it wasn't helpful or that your kid could have gotten in without your legacy status. It just makes you look small when you try to delude your friends. Your kid should just own that they had the advantage and are grateful and appreciative for it.[/quote]

Even the historical numbers you rely on show that many legacy applicants could indeed get in without being a legacy, especially the more recent data.  The same is not true of most other categories of hooks.[/quote]

Oh BS just because your kid is not as hard working that's on you.

Legacies get in if they have the grades and test scores.

Or if mommy or daddy buys a building. Which is not that often.

Spare us your stupidity.

My kids were legacies at two different colleges. One was 4 generations. They got in because they did the work. We did not do their college apps. What we did do is teach them how to learn and love learning. They definitely had advantages like tutors during high school if they wanted but getting in that college door they got in on their own. Some of mine came from Public school MOCO and some went to boarding all got in not because of us.

I will not diminish their accomplishments because people do not understand how legacies work.[/quote]

The point is many kids have the grades and stats this is not unique to your kids. Your kids got in because of legacy. [/quote]

Many kids may think they have the stats, but it turns out that there 4.0 with “high rigor” is from a school where 20 percent of the kids have the same average due to grade inflation and take the same classes isn’t that impressive.[/quote]

So only your kids have top rigor from a school with no grade inflation. Got it! Thanks for clarifying. My kids go to a top private school and I see the legacy parents, so full of themselves that their kids are so bright and special while the kids are tutored at every juncture. Just like you think that many 4.0 kids are at grade inflated schools, many of us think legacy kids would not have gotten in without that bump. If your kids are truly bright they would not have applied to schools where they did not have a legacy advantage.[/quote]

Why would my valedictorian at an elite private with incredible ecs and a 1580 NOT apply to Harvard?   To prove a point to some loser on dcum who’s wasted 30 pages working out their issues?  I think not.

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Fyi, no one thinks your kid is special because they got into a school because of a quota. [/quote]

As if either me or my kid care about your opinion.  You clearly are a bitter person with too much time on their hands whose own kid had disappointing  results.  [/quote]

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