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how many legacies, recruited athletes, URMs, targeted "poverty" candidates, and special consideration (umm, you know, potential major donor) students? And don't forget to throw in an extra oboe or a bassoon for the orchestra and a couple of special tenors for the choir every year or two .. . . I've got to believe the number is somewhere between 150 and 200, no?
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<p>It don't think it's quite that bleak: athletic tips have been capped in the NESCACs below 80/class; ALANA students hover around 20-25% or another 90 students, many of whom would have been admitted purely on their own merit; the number of development admits is vanishingly small; legacies are typically a small group and again, many of them could make it on their own merits. And these schools are admitting around 2-4 kids for every seat in the class, depending on their yield rate.</p>
<p>I don't mean to minimize how competitive it is for unhooked, bright kids--it's awful. But it's good to keep things in perspective.</p>