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A comment on Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh end use of legacy status in admissions. Parent comment

Re:Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh end use of lega... by lazyasciiart on Monday July 24, 2023 @05:38PM (#36854572)
They cannot be measured distinctly when one is a proxy for the other.
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Re:Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh end use of lega... by bumby on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @02:51PM (#36867496)
It seems like they are correlated, but I don't know that one is necessarily a good proxy for the other.

Would you apply that to, say, wealth and SAT scores?

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