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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 1866339, member: 780"]
No one should get carried away about this. The "edge" that the school is suggesting is roughly equivalent to the Legacy edge they give today to the children of GU alumni.

I can tell you that after living among so many Georgetown alums for so long the edge their kids get isn't much. It's a tie-breaker between two equally qualified candidates.

Every Spring I hear the belly aching about how little Kevin or Meghan didn't get into the parent's Alma Mater. Only later to find out that the kid ended up at St Joe's or Fordham suggesting to me that the kid wasn't close to qualifying for Georgetown and that the only thing they had going for them was the parent's alumni status.

Admitting someone to a school they aren't academically prepared for doesn't do anyone a favor. They sit there in class for however many years they stick it out mystified by the class material and the professor. They may graduate --- as its almost impossible to fail out of these schools --- but they haven't gotten anything close to what their classmates out of the experience. I'm of the opinion that the majority of the GU basketball players fit into that category.
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