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<p>I had never focused on that rather interesting statement. Of course I want to read it (as it was probably intended to be read) as speaking to the high standard they have for legacies. But I can think of some other possible explanations.</p>
<p>– The legacies they admit have high school grades and scores on the level of recruited hockey players (except that their grades come from Dalton and Exeter, not Natick Vo-Tech), and they do a little better than the recruited hockey players in college. [By the way, nothing against recruited hockey players here, but rumor has always had it that hockey players are the toughest group to recruit within Ivy guidelines.]</p>
<p>– The legacies they admit are wealthier than their GPA/SAT peers, and wealth and college grades are correlated.</p>