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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Surprised no one started a thread on this yet. Do you think other elite schools will do this, too? Article names the few that already have (MIT, Cal Tech, Johns Hopkins).

Personally, as a POC who went to a different elite college, I think it's BS that they're getting rid of this preference juuuuust at the point when minorities will start to benefit from it in large numbers. It was fine when it overwhelmingly benefited white people, but we can't have Asian/ AA/ Latinx people start getting the same privileges, can we? How shall we ever sustain white supremacy then??

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/us/amherst-college-legacy-admissions.html[/quote]

If these schools use race/ethnicity as a factor in building their community, it won't matter that they don't know you are a legacy. Right?  (signed - someone who supports no legacy and supports diversity in admissions decisions)[/quote]

+1 especially if the diversity goal includes socioeconomic factors. [/quote]

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