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Re:US Education Dept. Opens Civil Rights Inquiry into Harvar... by xhkkffbf on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @05:47PM (#36870039)
> Then they can get in without legacy admission.

Not necessarily. Apparently there are a bunch separate pools: one for the athletes, one for the professors' kids, one for the orchestra etc. If the kid is merely a legacy with good SATs, they're not eligible for the other pools.

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Re:US Education Dept. Opens Civil Rights Inquiry into Harvar... by michaelt on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @07:03PM (#36870942)
Harvard has 23,000 students - I find it hard to believe the orchestra is more than 1% of that.
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Re:US Education Dept. Opens Civil Rights Inquiry into Harvar... by sokoloff on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @07:17PM (#36871063)
Aren’t we talking about undergrad admissions selection process? That’s a little under 2K per year.
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