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With Ivy Day approaching, students will begin to open their decision letters from schools such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, UPenn, Cornell and Dartmouth. Whether they get accepted or denied is not merely up to their stats, their extracurriculars, SAT score, GPA, or ACT score; a large factor is their personal privilege. As the genre of "reading the college essay that got me into the Ivy League" becomes evermore popular, it's time to evaluate the role that elite private schools play in the college admissions process.