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Cicada

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2. Grandparent is a bit of a nudge, not like a primary legacy, but helpful

Reply to blondebanshee (Original post)

Sun Sep 30, 2018, 11:55 PM

Sep 2018

I think Brett would have been admitted anyway. He was no George W Bush who didn’t have a prayer without the legacy. Yale gives the most weight, by a lot, to top grades at schools they know from experience are rigorous, whose prior graduates with top grades have excelled at Yale. It is a much better predictor than SAT scores, statistically proven better. Georgetown prep is one of those schools. And I think Brett was valedictorian. But he did get a bit of a nudge from grandpa, he lied about that.

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