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<p>*The already crazed competition for admission to the nation’s most prestigious universities and colleges became even more intense this year, with many logging record low acceptance rates. </p>

<p>Harvard College, for example, offered admission to only 7.1 percent of the 27,462 high school seniors who applied.</p>

<p>— The Times, April 1*</p>

<p>FROM: Office of Admissions, Harvard College</p>

<p>To: Double Legacy Applicant, Class of 2012</p>

<p>Here at Harvard’s Office of Admissions, we have some very exciting news for you....</p>

<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/05/opinion/05borowitz.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/05/opinion/05borowitz.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>sounds like something theonion.com would post....</p>

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<p>Thanks for posting, twinmom. I love Andy Borowitz.</p>

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<p>Funny. I guess he meant that H admitted so few students they couldn't even admit the double-legacies, so.... its the next best thing!</p>

<p>DS and I saw a car with a Harvard sticker when he was in high school. We decided we should just go to the H bookstore, buy a sticker, put it on the car, and save $170,000. When employers asked if he really attended H, he would say, "Of course, just look at my car!" ha ha</p>

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<p>It is "interesting" that the legacy advantage is declining at precisely the time that significant numbers of minorities (and women) would be in a position for the first time to make use of it.</p>

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<p>Very intersting, mini.</p>

<p>When I was UG at Antioch, I remember a graffiti thing in a bathroom stall--over the toilet paper dispenser--something like, Antioch diplomas--take one and flush $16,000 down the toilet. I loved this and took it as a great tongue-in-cheek statement of our sense of humor. In fact the degree was more useful than most because we had worked at co-op jobs and were clearer about careers than many undergraduates. Now it would be a $200,000 flush.</p>