re: You be the admissions director

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This was a long time ago.

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Maybe not as pertinent in the extreme as you suppose then. Ivy SAT admission requirements are high regardless of background.

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This was a long time ago. Ivy League schools started aff action back in the 70s. I thought you would have known that.

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Admission rates were a hell of a lot higher in the 70's (and earlier) than today.

If the conversation is centering on need based aid, I'm not sure what the problem is with students needing aid getting it, especially with the monster endowments some of these schools have.

If the problem is that Harvard just doesn't go down the line and admit every 1600 SAT and 4.0 that applied first and then work their way down, well, all of the national colleges and universities have always been open that they are creating a class and not simply grabbing the highest test scores that apply.

Sometimes that means a poor black girl from the inner city gets in with scores on the lower end of the accepted range. But sometimes that means captain of the crew team at Andover and Harvard legacy Clayton Rockefeller Farnsworth IV gets the same break.

If any particular group has a right to be pissed at that reality, it's the East Asian-American applicants.