The Proles Don't Get Harvard No Matter What The Numbers

True legacy admits are only one of many discrete classes of advantaged individuals admitted to elite colleges/universities--and elite boarding schools as well.  Legacy is a big one.  Jared Kushner-style fathers are another.  Athlete.  Geographic diversity.  Other diversities.  Other other diversities.  Ability to pay.  If you think your smart, hard-working, A+ kid from anodyne, middle-class public middle school or public high school simply is competing for one of the total number of admits Yale or Harvard or St. Paul's or Exeter are handing out this year, you're fucking high.  There are maybe ten mundane A+ average/1500+ SAT type admits a year to schools like Harvard and Yale, with the elite boarding high schools very similar.  Math sez your kid ain't gettin' one.  Those places are not for the likes of you.  Statistically.