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That's BS. Billionaires don't have so many kids.

Legacy admissions take 10 to 25 percent of all admissions.




> That's BS. Billionaires don't have so many kids

What are you basing this being BS on?

Harvard takes about 2,000 kids a year. The Dean's or director's list is about 200 of those [1]. If a few more kids come from families giving tens of millions, that will absolutely reduce the odds of a family giving high hundreds of thousands making the cut.

[1] https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/10/18/day-three-harv...




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