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If you had some certification process where one candidate in, say, twenty turned out to be wildly unqualified, somebody whose dad had bought them their law degree or forklift certification or who cares what without doing the reading or training, without passing the tests, what value would we - or should we - put on that certification?

Relatedly: of the the _30%_ of Harvard freshmen who count as "legacy admissions", what fraction of them do you think wrote their own applications?