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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'll bite, HYP undergrad here and T10 law school.  Most of them got in via some sort of undeserving hook - legacy, prep school connections, or athlete in some random sport that only prep schools do.

They weren't smart and did terribly on the LSAT (or MCAT), but were told they were spectacular by parents their whole lives and couldn't give up the dream of being a lawyer or doctor.  Went to whatever shitty school let them in.  These were the same kids with mediocre SAT scores but the hook to get in.

It's somewhat shocking how many are like this. [b] It's why I say you can tell who the deserving Ivy undergrads are in one second - double Ivy or the equivalent [/b]or they shouldn't have been there in the first place.[/quote]

LOL you had me until this
The five double ivys I know -- and I mean all five of them -- are from the very richest (and whitest) families you can imagine, and all are noticeably, almost painfully average. Perhaps if they'd done a masters at Ohio State it wouldn't be as glaringly obvious that they are just credentials with no real oomph. [/quote]

That’s actually really interesting.  I have the opposite anecdotal experience - there of course are some rich white kids but they were almost annoyingly smart.  MBAs don’t count though - just JDs and MDs.  Come to think of it though they were all Jewish.[/quote]

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