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Old 03-13-2019, 09:26 AM   #38
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Originally Posted by Wormius View Post
How did Bush get into Yale or Trump into UPenn? These guys weren't exactlyknown for thier academic achievements.
Bush got into Yale by virtue of being related to a previous Yale alumni, under a system that a lot of the elite US schools use, called legacy preferences. I'm not sure about Donald Trump getting into UPenn, but that legacy system is likely why Ivanka and Tiffany went to UPenn as well (but to Tiffany's credit she's now in law school at Georgetown and apparently getting by on her own merits).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_preferences
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