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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With maga taking down ivies, this might become true in a few years.  Sad.[/quote]

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The Ivies are falling out of favor because people finally discovered the 30% legacy admissions, the sports recruiting, and figured out the academic accomplishments are highly inflated at the Ivies.[/quote]
Exactly.[/quote]

The Ivies are less beholden to legacy admissions than in the past, the sports always come second to academics at Ivies, and the academic rigor is less watered down at most of the Ivies than at most other top universities.

Sorry that you/your kid got turned away.

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There are lots of melodramatic stories about rich legacies who got in because of who their parents are, and that definitely does happen. But the vast majority of legacies are very smart kids. Smart people have smart, highly motivated kids. My kid is smart and wants to go to the Ivy+ I went to. I'm not donating big bucks. He might have a small edge but not much. He has known from an early age that if he wants to go there, he better work his tail off. So that has created extra motivation.

Legacy kids also quickly fit in at schools and know how to socialize like adults. This is highly underrated but schools don't want a bunch of nerdy drones who will lock themselves in the library and computer lab.[/quote]

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