GPA: True or false questions

[hmom5]

<p>The numbers are all published, so if anyone is doing the research, it’s all there.</p>

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Michele Hernandez, nationally known private college admissions consultant located in Vermont. Author of the book A is Admissions: The Insider’s Guide to Getting into the Ivy League and Other Top Colleges and former admissions officer at Dartmouth College</p>

<p>“40 percent of every Ivy League school is filled up with special cases: athletes, minorities, low-income, legacies or development cases. They’re tagged, and schools lower the admissions standards a lot for those kids.

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<p>It’s actually higher at some today:</p>

<p>Dartmouth:</p>

<p>athletes: 17%
URMs: 20%
legacies: 12%
first gen: 14%</p>

<p>Even with significant overlap, you do the math…</p>