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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP - are the high school students you know mostly white? Because one way of reading this post is that it reaffirms the recent Supreme Court decision - it’s become nearly impossible for white highly qualified high school students to get into Ivy League schools unless they are legacies or athletes. [/quote] I once went through published data from the litigation and the Harvard Crimson, etc, and added up the percentages of Harvard admits that were in a special category of any kind — URM, legacy, faculty, athlete, first gen, etc. As I recall, the total % came out to be well over 100%. Like 130% or so. Even if you assume a significant % of kids are in two categories (I think something like 20%+ of legacies are URM now?) the number of slots left for white kids with no hooks is tiny. [/quote] The number of slots for all kids is tiny. [/quote]
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