<p>noob,</p>
<p>A couple of things. I never said legacy ED = regular ED. I said a legacy RD applicant has roughly the same acceptance rate as an ED applicant. </p>
<p>This helps strengthen the point about why percentages are higher when applicant pools are smaller. Legacies are looked at closer when they apply RD because of their legacy.</p>
<p>And as for knowing my friends SAT scores thanks for trying to make me sound dumb, but I’ll tell you why I know these things. When I was at Duke I heard a lot of ignorant comments about athletes. I did not think that these things were fair so I took some polls and put together some data for a class. It was that simple, I asked random people but I also asked my friends (the ones that didn’t feel uncomfortable giving out this information). I did this because unfortunately many people have this negative impression of athletes, when as I pointed out before being a nationally ranked athlete IS a reason to be accepted to school just like a nationally ranked chess player or anything else. </p>
<p>Athletics are part of your EC’s and if that is what you focus on and excel at then great, it should help you get into school even with lower “stats”. An application is MUCH MORE than stats.</p>