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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mean to say that the odds for legacy admits are better than for the general pool -- but certainly not relatively easy.[/quote]
[b]The hard thing about going up against legacy is also that many legacy kids are very smart.[/b] [/quote]

Yes, this is something that graduates of fancy colleges like to believe.

But the fact is that legacy admission is affirmative action for the children of graduates of fancy colleges.[/quote]

And athletic recruiting may be affirmative action for pituitary cases.  What's your point?[/quote]

But not as smart as non legacy kids.  I am a little familiar with legacy acceptances.  My kids  go to Ivies and many of their friends are legacy.  All you need to look at is where they got in non legacy to see the boost they got.  Accepted at Harvard, rejected at Brown.  Accreted at Dartmouth, rejected everywhere else and best acceptance was at University of Oregon honors college.

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