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Re:Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard (2019) by murgindrag on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @06:00PM (#23764588)
What's interesting are the odds of non-ALDC whites being admitted.
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Re:Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard (2019) by sct202 on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @06:09PM (#23764689)
It's basically the same as the non-ALDC asian acceptance rate.
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Re:Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard (2019) by catalogia on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @06:04PM (#23764634)
> ALDC

What does this mean? Athlete, legacy, donor, ...C? Celebrity?

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Re:Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard (2019) by arcticbull on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @06:06PM (#23764660)
Based on my research the term “ALDC” refers to “recruited Athletes, Legacies, those on the Dean’s interest list, and Children of faculty and staff.”
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Re:Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard (2019) by renewiltord on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @06:10PM (#23764699)
Amused by "based on my research" being "I read the linked abstract". Not hating, just amused at what appears to be a euphemistic response.
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Re:Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard (2019) by catalogia on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @06:27PM (#23764872)
Sorry, the original title of the post used the word "Staff" so I suppose I was primed for "ALD - Staff" and missed "ALD - [Children of] Staff"
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Re:Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard (2019) by sillz on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @06:10PM (#23764713)
From the introduction of the paper: "... recruited athletes, legacies, those on the dean’s interest list, and children of faculty and staff (ALDCs)."
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Re:Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard (2019) by apsec112 on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @06:06PM (#23764653)
Children of the faculty.
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Re:Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard (2019) by NickLamp on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @06:07PM (#23764664)
Children of the faculty
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