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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree it's dog crap. Schools use it to social-engineer the class makeup they want, the most egregious example being Harvard's longstanding practice, as revealed in the lawsuit against them, of reducing the number of Asian admits by scoring them low on esoteric "likeability" metrics.[/quote]

The biggest case of this was admitting David Hogg after he took a gap year.  Before the shooting (a tragedy and I am not denying that), he got rejected from like UCSD.  1210 or something SAT.  Took a gap year; got into Harvard. Sad to exploit tragedy.  Probably met a professor or something that pulled strings.

Wonder where the kid that sued the newspaper over the MAGA Hat from the Catholic School will go? [/quote]

He got rejected from UCF, too. The media made a big deal about his 4.2 high school GPA, but anyone familiar with Florida public high school grade inflation knows that's like a B-minus average at best. The top students in Florida have GPAs in the 5's. Just scroll through Hogg's Twitter/X feed. He can barely put together a grammatically correct sentence, even after four years at Harvard.

The MAGA hat Catholic kid, Nick Sandmann, went to Transylvania in Kentucky. A decent LAC, but unselective and a far cry from an Ivy.[/quote]

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