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Let me fix that for you:

"And the plurality of Harvard students aren't wealthy legacies, they're extremely lucky middle class kids."

Need I remind you that there are a ridiculous amount of kids who take ridiculous courses for high schools (e.g. even college courses), get extremely high testing scores, and loads of extracurricular and get rejected on the basis that Harvard has a quota for each school and a quota for ethnicities.

Otherwise, Ivy Leagues' demographics would probably turn into the fair-and-balanced UC schools ...


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