59% of Harvard's class is just 3 hooked types

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there’s been a lot of discussion of how many seats there are for just the run of the mill straight A, 10 AP, 99%tile test scoring kids with lots of ECs and volunteer work. On this source they claim that 37% are legacies, 12% recruited athletes, and 10% Dean/Director’s interest list. This is not even subtracting seats for Internationals (typically 10%), URMs (typically 10-15%) and Pell grant/First generation … so it’s possible only a few hundred seats at each of the T20 schools are what we would consider unhooked kids.
https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/want-to-get-into-harvard-being-a-legacy-helps-1488208963830

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This stat was refuted elsewhere on CC. I will go find it.

Here: http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/2136724-harvard-s-freshman-class-is-more-than-one-third-legacy-here-s-why-that-s-a-problem.html#latest

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