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Re:Looking to the Past to Ban Legacy Admissions by tokenadult on Wednesday November 26, 2008 @01:39PM (#377905)
What is the evidence that prep school graduates have a base acceptance rate at Harvard above 50 percent? That's not what the matriculation statistics at Exeter

http://www.exeter.edu/documents/Profile_2009_10_7(2).pdf

tend to suggest.

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Re:Looking to the Past to Ban Legacy Admissions by time_management on Wednesday November 26, 2008 @01:46PM (#377914)
Those statistics show where the students actually go, not where they apply and are accepted. Why do you assume that a baseline admit rate of 50% would imply that 50% of prep-school alums go to Harvard, which is clearly a false implication?
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