<p>Google is our friend.</p>
<p>It turns out that Arianna Smith is at Hobart and William Smith College, and on the Novice Eight rowing squad: [Hobart</a> and William Smith Colleges - Herons find silver lining at Head of the Genesee](<a href=“http://www.hwsathletics.com/news/2010/10/16/WSRW_1016100140.aspx]Hobart”>Herons find silver lining at Head of the Genesee - Hobart and William Smith Colleges Athletics)</p>
<p>good for her.</p>
<p>Serveral random thoughts:</p>
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<li>Bad idea to publish very substandard stats and grasp onto 5 generation status as a back-door in</li>
<li>REALLY bad idea for Mom (I assume it was Mom) to write what I interpret as an embittered, entitled response</li>
<li>I AM going to assume a 3.5ish GPA, as that is the mostly likely context to the grade statement made in the article. So, 3.5 GPA, 1910 SAT, white female, advantaged social setting. Given this , had a less than 1% chance of admittance outside the legacy hook. Given the public nature of this admissions decision, the adcom had NO CHOICE but to deny her. Imagine the uproar from far more qualified candidates who were denied and the public debate had she been admitted?</li>
<li>Given her academic performance (implied GPA, given 1910 with professional prep), I’m sure her experience at HWSC is and will be far more gratifying than her experience would have been at Cornell. The adcoms did her a favor.</li>
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<p>A question was raised on about page 3 about how much advantage legacy status gives… just guessing here, but I am going to say that multi-generational legacy boosts GPA by .2, and SAT by 200 points. Single generation legacy by half that. Developmental admit probably a little more than that. If my estimate is close to accurate (+.2 GPA, +200 SAT), she was still well below the midpoint of non-legacy admits. A little less than the bump that URMs would typically receive.</p>