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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is there a school that most of these extraordinary kids are going to now?  It seems the Ivies are mostly athletes, legacies, and URM picks.[/quote]

Disagree with your premise - the research shows that the legacies/athletes/URM are just as brilliant as those that didn't get in - but there are only so many seats, so the seats go to the brilliant ones who have the above hooks.  Regardless, here's my off the cuff answer.

MIT, Stanford, Berkeley.[/quote]

Which research?

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DP: That's what the investigation found--and is in a few of the NYtimes articles on this.  These hooked groups (legacies/athletes/URM) who were admitted weren't less brilliant than the students that didn't get in, it's just that there were far more equally brilliant students so the hook is what made the cut.  All other things being equal, the hook adds an advantage.  [/quote]

https://www.city-journal.org/article/harvards-affirmative-action-rationale-is-bogus

"the average Asian-American admittee to Harvard had SAT scores roughly 120 points higher than blacks admitted and 50 points higher than whites.

(This is a low estimate, as a third or more of Asian applicants would have scored higher than the maximum SAT score had the maximum been increased.)"

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