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[quote=Anonymous]"Hard cases make bad law" pertains to situations where the law works appropriately for the vast majority even though there might be a few unusual situations where it doesn't and a bad outcome results.

Here, the law only benefits the very small share of top students who have a chance at admission at an extremely selective college that will only take 1-2 students from that high school. For the other 95% of the class, the law benefits them in no way whatsoever since they were never going to apply, much less get accepted, to Harvard. And not only does it not benefit them, it could hurt their prospects ("bad outcome") since some of these students might need multiple merit offers, or they might have low GPAs and test scores that make it hard to get admitted to the more affordable state schools that don't practice holistic admissions. By the "hard cases make bad law" logic, the rule should be flipped (no limit on applications) so that the overwhelming majority of HS students would benefit from it.

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