How to convince a paranoid mom?

[Periwinkle]

<p>Vivsters, your mom sounds like a smart woman. It’s not a small thing to send a child so far away to school.</p>

<p>I would point out that, if she criticizes boarding schools for being “full of legacies and rich people,” the Ivy League is also full of such students.</p>

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According to the study, by Michael Hurwitz, a doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, applicants to a parent’s alma mater had, on average, seven times the odds of admission of nonlegacy applicants. […]On average, Mr. Hurwitz’s study found, legacy applicants had slightly higher SAT scores than others. Education researchers point out that students whose parents attended elite colleges are also more likely to have advantages like family wealth and private school education.

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