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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jeremy Lin got into Harvard because of basketball.  As an Asian without basketball, he would have had a difficult time. He faced severe discrimination from all schools outside of MIT and Harvard and from the NBA, until he proved everyone wrong.

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I wouldn't sell him short overall with the "because of basketball" comment. He was a great student at an elite public school (Palo Alto High). [/quote]

I'm sure he was, but being Harvard's number one basketball recruit that year moved him from having a ~10%-50% chance of admission to a 100% chance of admission.[/quote]

Still not "because of." Lin was also not a highly touted recruit. [/quote]

No, it is "because of."  Jeremy Lin got into Harvard because he was their #1 basketball recruit that year -- that doesn't mean that he was not otherwise academically qualified or that he couldn't have gotten in without basketball.[/quote]

That "because of" statement is disconnected from how the holistic admissions process Harvard has works.[/quote]

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