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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Schools are looking for the value each student might add to their community. They decide what's important to them, as long as the students are within a range of GPA, rigor and (maybe) test scores. I'm sure you can understand that having a family like Bush or Kennedy (or Bezos, Gates, Koch or Kraft etc) can provide additional benefits to a school. [/quote]

This, 100%. People on this board think we live and die by "the stats." Are there any studies out there about what good the typical A+ high school students do in this world compared to the B+ students? I'm going to guess, it isn't meaningful. What a person brings to a college community, or any community, is not defined soley by a very narrow set of "stats." Such small-minded thinking. Which, by the way, is why none of you are running Harvard.[/quote]

And you need to know the students' race or legacy status for that?

You should see each 'person' as an individual person, not as a son of somebody or as a part of a racial group.
  
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