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Your comment is pretty spot on about the admission dynamics. > Legacy I think it is more of a tip than you are making it out to be simply due to yield farming
by whimsicalism 3y ago
Your comment is pretty spot on about the admission dynamics.
> Legacy
I think it is more of a tip than you are making it out to be simply due to yield farming - the smart kid who has a Harvard parent is more likely to go to Harvard over Yale than a generic smart kid, so if you want to keep your admission rates as low as possible you tip legacy.
> 10-20 kids/year who get in this way who wouldn't otherwise.
They certainly exist, Harvard has the z-list.
- meetingthrower 3y agoHah just heard that come up in another context. Confirmed. Heard the price tag was $3m and you have to take a gap year.
- whimsicalism 3y agoI don’t know what the price tag is but the gap year thing is true, the people I was familiar with had billionaires as parents.
- robinbobbin 3y agowhy do you have to take a gap year?
- whimsicalism 3y agothey admit you off of the waitlist if your family donates a lot but i think they get to not count it in this years numbers or next years if they give you a deferred acceptance
- CraigRo 3y agoOne special gifts officer told me that the U had rejected a rather limited number of people whose families had 8 billion dollars. 3 million might get you into Brown, but it isn't going to get you into Harvard.
- meetingthrower 3y agoI think this is a "we call you" situation, so if the kid is on the bubble they ask for the bribe. It doesn't work the other way if the kid is unqualified. No more Kushners...