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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a URM who attended HYSM and I'm friends with classmates who went on to become admissions officers. I also sat on admissions committees at my T14 law school. Merely checking those boxes isn't usually enough to get the applicant admitted. Their essays, ECs, zip code, LORs, parent info (including college) and so on will all be carefully examined at an Ivy. Unless the kid also faked things in those other components of their application package, they'd need to be able to get admitted as if they were not a URM.

Sure, people like that crazy young woman at Penn who was almost a Rhodes Scholar will slip through the cracks now and then. But that's much more likely to happen at a place like Penn State where a computer is doing all the decision making than at Penn, where a whole team is reading and scoring every bit of info they've collected. This is especially true for Native Americans. There are few enough Native American students nationally each year who meet the criteria for admission to an Ivy or Stanford or MIT that these schools are fighting over them. Some random dude applying from DC with zilch in his package to indicate that he's legit is not who they're looking for. [/quote]

Without being too specific, local experience says otherwise. [/quote]

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