<p>^ i agree.. but yale takes legacies</p>
<p>Anon_Person, you are absolutely correct. The kids at places like Roxbury Latin are incredibly intelligent. It's not the connections or legacies; these kids belong at the Ivies. Almost 1/4 of the entire class are National Merit Finalists each year. The average SAT score is nearly a 2300. Plus, the parents of many kids there didn't go to Ivies.
Ivybound, of course Yale takes legacies. Every school in the country does... But no Ivy is going to accept you just because you're a legacy. Case in point: I know a kid at my school who is a double legacy at Cornell with almost all A's but who got rejected ED. Legacy is not everything.</p>
<p>^Maybe that's true for the prep schools around you, but not for the schools around me. A lot of the kids at those schools are just snotty stupid kids whose parents donate a building or two and they're in.</p>
<p>By no means am I saying that Princeton High School people and are high school people aren't intelligent, simply that they have clear advantage in their respective legacies.</p>
<p>ChoklitRain goes to Harvard-Westlake.</p>
<p>^ You might be right. Congratulations, detective.</p>