Is there anything positive about legacy admissions?

[Anonymous]

I asked first.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In a society that prides itself on meritocracy

Assuming facts not in evidence.

+1 ditto with "free enterprise." There are now and have always been gatekeepers and inherited enterprise everywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The whole point of going to an elite school is to rub elbows with the “privileged few.” Otherwise we would just administer an IQ test and take the top X%.

That is exactly how Asian top universities select students, India, South Korea, China, Singapore, etc

IQ tests are not accurate for people with a variety of non-intellectual disabilities, so that's a poor choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I asked first.

That’s Ok, you can avoid the question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The whole point of going to an elite school is to rub elbows with the “privileged few.” Otherwise we would just administer an IQ test and take the top X%.

That is exactly how Asian top universities select students, India, South Korea, China, Singapore, etc

IQ tests are not accurate for people with a variety of non-intellectual disabilities, so that's a poor choice.

Same as with the “last name” criterion, it is not accurate for people with a variety of non-intellectual disabilities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It might eventually disappear :

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/legacy-college-admissions-preferences-backlash-772c88be?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqfclKtZWTRMwfA1qxSsNm_1Fq6fBBmExYI8FmuNEMEbNDvHOM6WrToN&gaa_ts=68fd8a7c&gaa_sig=dMhAzGZBjWqB-ztwD6qSBcXmyYnGZrxdo2TsPOEiHMSGPPTM6opr7GGQf1UJHtuzaaFAAgJy7Uu02iFqIQFLzg%3D%3D

Just because of the legacy admission, I will encourage my kids to apply to colleges WITHOUT legacy admissions. I think it’s more consistent with my view of true social inclusion.

That's great and it only helps us legacy applicants. Thankful my daughter who is applying as a legacy this year is missing this new roadblock. She will get in just in the nick of time. Ad she's my youngest!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It might eventually disappear :

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/legacy-college-admissions-preferences-backlash-772c88be?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqfclKtZWTRMwfA1qxSsNm_1Fq6fBBmExYI8FmuNEMEbNDvHOM6WrToN&gaa_ts=68fd8a7c&gaa_sig=dMhAzGZBjWqB-ztwD6qSBcXmyYnGZrxdo2TsPOEiHMSGPPTM6opr7GGQf1UJHtuzaaFAAgJy7Uu02iFqIQFLzg%3D%3D

Just because of the legacy admission, I will encourage my kids to apply to colleges WITHOUT legacy admissions. I think it’s more consistent with my view of true social inclusion.

That's great and it only helps us legacy applicants. Thankful my daughter who is applying as a legacy this year is missing this new roadblock. She will get in just in the nick of time. Ad she's my youngest!!

Enjoy while it lasts!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Legacies keep the alumi donation pipeline full. With no legacies donations would plummet. It is that simple.

There's no evidence of this: an alternative hypothesis is that legacy boosts lead to admissions of kids who wouldn't have been admitted were it not for the legacy boost, thereby perpetuating the supremacy of otherwise less than stellar kids. And maybe one of the kids who would have been admitted, if selection were fully merit based would be the next billionaire who could keep college coffers full.

[Anonymous]

Harvard econ professor did a study on legacy preferences

https://opportunityinsights.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/CollegeAdmissions_Nontech.pdf

Raj Chetty and John N. Friedman economics professors at Harvard and Brown University — found that when applicants from the top 1 percent of family incomes have comparable standardized test scores to those from low-income families, Ivy-plus colleges are almost twice as likely to admit the wealthier candidate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I asked first.

That’s Ok, you can avoid the question.

You're the one avoiding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I asked first.

That’s Ok, you can avoid the question.

You're the one avoiding.

Not really. You can google fundraising at mit, I am not going to do it for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I asked first.

That’s Ok, you can avoid the question.

You're the one avoiding.

Not really. You can google fundraising at mit, I am not going to do it for you.

That's not how it works. Googling "fundraising at mit" doesn't prove your point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I asked first.

That’s Ok, you can avoid the question.

You're the one avoiding.

Not really. You can google fundraising at mit, I am not going to do it for you.

That's not how it works. Googling "fundraising at mit" doesn't prove your point.

Sure, MIT is such a bad school because the absence of legacy admissions. They are really having fundraising problems. What are they thinking about ?

[Anonymous]

Who claimed that MIT is "such a bad school" or that they are "really having fundraising problems"? No one, because you just love putting up strawmen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who claimed that MIT is "such a bad school" or that they are "really having fundraising problems"? No one, because you just love putting up strawmen.

Not really. I claim that you can have a successful university without legacy admissions, such as John Hopkins, mit, and caltech. Somehow that fact bothers you a bit. Don’t send your kids there and problem solved.