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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a new president now, who I understand is highly accomplished and a good person - perhaps he would want to hear about your experience ... You may still be bitter about DC, but I personally believe ending things on a more positive note after your DH has devoted so much time, energy and money to the school might be a net good thing for your family ... ? [/quote]

[b]Thank you for this comment. Bitter implies we care. We were told one thing since DC was born and received another. We only come across as slighted revisiting this. I'm moving on but, sharing with alumni our experience so they do not get their hopes shattered.[/quote][/b]

I understand your frustration, OP.  Legacy doesn't mean what is used to.  My own SLAC takes only about 30% of the legacies now.  My DC was legacy at Harvard and triple legacy at Yale.  She had the scores, the SAT II scores and the 4.0+ GPA but still didn't get in.  White females are a dime a dozen.  The slots went to URMs, athletes, first generations, and international students.  Every LAC now wants to pattern itself after HYP and say it is a "global" institution, which means something has to give and it is usually the legacies.  Note the statistics that even LACs boast about after each class is formed - they list the number of international students and no. of countries they hail from, they talk about all the first generation students, the URMs, the diversity, the disadvantaged they admitted.  Even if you have a faculty member in your family it doesn't mean squat to the admissions office.  It's all about stats reported to U.S News & World report.  Legacies just don't count in those statistics.[/quote]

Thank you for commenting. The entire situation is a powder-keg waiting for a spark. I have typed and deleted so many comments in this post. I think I'll leave you with: "Best of luck to you and your daughter. She's very lucky to have you."[/quote]

Care to explain why it's a powder keg ?[/quote]

I don't think most people are opposed to greater diversity but there's an element of today's current college model that doesn't seem quite fair. It's not one or two specific things but many things that come together. One part of it would be international students. Why are the schools taking in more and more international students at the expense of highly qualified American students? After all, our tax dollars are used to subsidize these colleges, whether directly or indirectly. And while it's great that schools are looking at taking in more 1st generation (read: poor, usually immigrant background) students, they usually come in at lower grades/scores than more qualified rejected candidates who don't tick enough diversity boxes. So your blameless child, who's worked very hard in school because all the top colleges are saying we need X grades and Y scores and Z accomplishments, and then gets rejection after rejection over technically lesser qualified candidates, or candidates who got in because they're "hispanic" despite that mom and dad are doctors and from rich families in Mexico and so forth. A lot of virtue signalling in today's college admissions. Harvard is a great example, if you add up all the "minority" students plus the international students, you're left with around 40% of the undergrads who are "white" but half of that will certainly be Jewish. So the percentage of Harvard's student body that is from your typical white American background is much smaller than the actual share of the national population, and that's because Harvard has to play the admissions game to try to be as fair as possible to the other groups (Asian Americans and Jews are heavily overrepresented and for good reasons), and to accommodate their desire for more international presence at Harvard, the group that gets most affected in enrollment numbers are, you got it, non-Jewish white American kids from normal backgrounds. (note, do NOT dare claim I'm anti-semitic or anti-Asian, I'm just pointing out the facts).

Then, on top of it, are the shockingly high tuition. [/quote]

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