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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Please. I'm just saying the legacy kids are not always the smartest. Who would disagree with that? Last year, Yale seemed to take the legacies who were the brainiest.[/quote]

Eh, someone's subjective evaluation of the degree of "braininess" of applicants from general impressions of one's child's peers doesn't really mean much.  As an observing parent, you don't know what exactly their transcript was (maybe they had the same or lower GPA as someone else, but took much harder courses, or got better grades in harder courses), if they had a brilliant essay that showed a certain intellectual spark, if they had an overwhelmingly glowing rec letter from a teacher that was clearly more substantial than other applicants, etc. that was the tiebreaker.  Not saying that being a legacy doesn't make a difference--it certainly does, but it's sounding like there's a lot of sour grapes on this forum with a lot of information that is unknown.[/quote]

+1 Gotta blame someone for your problems.  It used to be the Blacks and the Jews.  Now it is the Blacks and the Jocks.[/quote]

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