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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The process may be broken, but we also must understand that capacity at the best schools has not kept pace with the increase in applications. Moreover, there are just more qualified kids. In the past, not everyone was aware of how to play the game at elite schools, but now more people test prep, develop hooks, and are aware of needs-blind admissions. Also, there are so many more opportunities for poor and/or minority kids to attend elite colleges, like Questbridge. Is sum, I don’t know if the system is broken as much as people don’t realize there is a supply constraint even as demand increases. That means the “price” - in this case, the acceptance hurdle - must go higher, which means a lower acceptance rate. [/quote]

Right. Which means that checking all the boxes for Harvard are necessary, but not sufficient, for admission. [/quote]

I know someone who was accepted to Harvard.  Yes, she got good grades and scores.But so did thousands of others   She is also a professional ballerina.  Really - who can compete with something like this?   😂[/quote]

Yeah, that’s the kind of hook an UMC white kid needs. Or ROTC.  I get why schools want URM, I’m not bashing that and I support it. But if you’re white and neither first gen nor a legacy, you need to be extra unique - like pro ballerina unique - or a recruitable athlete.  [/quote]

This is a funny post. You're upset that if you're white and not first gen, a recruited athlete or a legacy you need to have something else? You do realize that most legacies are white, as are most recruited athletes? You've listed multiple ways that white kids have an advantage but still imply that somehow URMs are the major issue. Thanks for the laugh.[/quote]

But you see, their precious princess or OMG Eagle Scout(!!) who even had a SUMMER JOB (wow!) didn’t have the hooks of legacy or jock and was rejected, so therefore to them, the system is “broken.”   :roll: [/quote]

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