>. Is it that easy to get
>> into Harvard these days
>> with logic skills like Hastrup's?
>
>If you're a "legacy" -- an alumni kid. Especially if
>your dad (these days, your mom, too, I guess) is a big
>donor. At Princeton, my alma, legacies have about a
>33% chance of admission as opposed to less than 10%
>for the general population. It's probably the same at Harvard.
I recently learned from my sister-in-law, a Harvard senior, that they have a thing called the Z-List there, for the dumbest, richest legacies, who are admitted only on the condition that they take a year off before entering to do something to make them more "interesting." I asked my Yale '75 class list if they'd heard of anything similar at the Old Blue Mother, and one said yeah, her freshman roomie was one.
Doug