<p>I learned yesterday that one of the HADES schools took a legacy kid (entering 9th) from my son’s Southern private school (competitive), who (although class rank is not published) was described to me as “if he ain’t at the bottom, he’s close to it”. Pretty good athlete and dad is an investment banker, no doubt extremely generous to the school. That’s an unfortunate lingering reality for so many of the eminently qualified young people who don’t have those connections.</p>