Comment by doctorpangloss

Yeah... There are exponentially more legacy applicants to colleges today than there were 30 years ago. By definition.

You could take every positive child development intervention known to man, and get what like, +5 IQ points?

But be related to a Senator, and you will be hundreds of times more likely to become a Senator (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/06/21/wh...) Show me how phone use delivers a +/-10,000% affect on outcomes the way nepotism does, and then I'll start listening to all this nonsense about variables and dumber students.