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<p>The Cambridge public high school, where the dead man and possibly his girlfriend studied, is a sort of hole in the gown. As was posted above, there were 11 CRLS students at Harvard from that year. The figure without an admissions preference for locals would be zero or one per year, maybe two sometimes. Eleven may be a bumper crop or not, I don’t know; but there are a lot more CRLS connections at Harvard than would ordinarily be the case, and given CRLS’ demographics this does up the odds of some unsavory relationships. For instance, the number of CRLS students who have or acquire arrest records is far larger than at high schools with a halfway comparable record of Harvard admission.</p>
<p>I’m not suggesting that Harvard admissions policy is to blame for the shooting, but the shooting does bring the CRLS connection to light in the most undesired way possible.</p>