The A stands for "athletic recruits". It's weird that it's grouped together with the other three categories. (Relatives of alumni/major donors, and the child

The A stands for "athletic recruits". It's weird that it's grouped together with the other three categories. (Relatives of alumni/major donors, and the children of faculty.) But I Googled how much of Harvard's funding comes from donations by alumni, and it's 26%.[1] So maybe the real problem is the admissions office is almost certainly, at some point, making a calculation about how likely a prospective student is to graduate and then gratefully make donations. [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/02/11/harvard-received-1-4-billion-in-donations-last-year-infographic/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/02/11/harvar...