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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Other than Legacy/Athlete/URM - any DMV admits at all? Looking at our school, this seems to take up 100 percent of the cases. [/quote]

Yes, there is little room for kids admitted solely on merit these days.[/quote]

NP. Junior mom. A little shocked to see the assertions on this thread. What an awful situation for our top universities to be driven by legacy considerations. Even the UK with its traditions of royalty does not permit this. [/quote]

Virtually all the legacies I know getting admitted are highly qualified. I'd be much more concerned about the famous/influential people's kids or the 1st gens/URMs.[/quote]

If highly qualified, they should compete EQUALLY against non legacies. Tons of people are qualified. To edge out others on the basis of legacy is the problem. [/quote]

Let's assume the legacy goes to a Big 3 and "edges out" someone from their school with similar stats, income level, ECs, and race. I don't always see any big issue with the legacy preference there. The legacy kids are not pushing out the first gen and URM applicants the schools are recruiting so hard to get. They are pushing out kids in similarly advantaged situations. If anything, an UMC kid could have a bone to pick.[/quote]

In our Big 3, in nearly every legacy vs. good academics last year, the good academics kid has been from a middle-income to scholarship kid who was amazing academically but passed over for an 'okay' academic kid who happened to be a legacy and usually very wealthy family. Not similarly advantaged. [/quote]

Yes, definitely not similarly advantaged.[/quote]

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