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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] What was the student’s odds at Princeton before they were accepted to MIT and Harvard? How did they change AFTER acceptance to MIT and Harvard? (They didn’t).[/quote] before, whatever the Princeton admit rate was After, some larger amount as the odds of getting into P conditional on having already gotten in to M or H are greater than just the odds of getting into P. Getting into universities are correlated events and therefore dependent.[/quote] At the time of application you haven't already got into P or M or H. You don't know any of the results. These are independent events. [/quote]
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