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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The game is up. The bill has come due. Unless you were [b]URM, Questbridge, RA or Alumni you weren’t getting in. Exception were perfect test scores and GPA.[/b] Ugly ugly year. Think the scandal from last year changed the game. Normal balanced kids aren’t getting in - don’t kid yourself. 
Was a horrible year at STA, Sidwell, NCS and GDS.

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Doesn't this pretty much sum up who is getting into the most elite colleges, especially ED/SCEA, regardless of where they went to high school?

URM
Questbridge
Recruited Athlete 
Legacy
1600s + 4.0 UW

"Normal balanced" kids are a dime a dozen. And the normal, balanced kids who attend a Big 3 aren't going to be at the top of their class, which makes it even more of a long shot.[/quote]

Yes, this is why the majority of kids in elite colleges are URMs and Questbridge.  No more room for 'normal, balanced kids' which is your way of saying white kids in Trump speak.[/quote]

Please tell me this is sarcasm. Because the number of first-gen and URMs at top 10 universities and colleges is small  https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/24/us/affirmative-action.html[/quote]

I read it as sarcasm.
I always wonder at people who complain about URMs stealing their kids' spots. If they were right, there would be 100% of URMs at these Ivy league schools.

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Agreed, lots of unwarranted vitriol against "URMs."

"Even after decades of affirmative action, [b]black and Hispanic students are more underrepresented at the nation’s top colleges and universities than they were 35 years ago[/b], according to a New York Times analysis.

[b]The share of black freshmen at elite schools is virtually unchanged since 1980. Black students are just 6 percent of freshmen but 15 percent of college-age Americans[/b], as the chart below shows.

[b]More Hispanics are attending elite schools, but the increase has not kept up with the huge growth of young Hispanics in the United States, so the gap between students and the college-age population has widened.[/b]"[/quote]

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