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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For all of you that are okay with legacy preference, are you okay with affirmative action?  Same thing but in reverse.  [/quote]

I am ok with both. [/quote]

+2. DC1 is the 3rd generation at Brown, where DH's grandmother established a scholarship. I can see why the school would want us versus someone who sent 25 copy/paste applications to whatever US News ranked at the top that year. [/quote]

How special for your DC1.  I guess she didn’t need to send 25 applications like the rest of the unwashed masses because she knew she had an advantage as a legacy.  [/quote]

The unwashed masses don't care about the school's culture or fit. All they care about is social mobility/ finally making money. It doesn't matter if they attend MIT or Dartmouth, as long as they end up in a hardie planked SFH in McLean. We've been paying tuition for URMs for years now and fulfilling the promise of a life of "usefulness and reputation". It's not an advantage, it's a commitment. What are you bringing to the table that is so incredibly valuable?   [/quote]

If your daughter has the intelligence level you show in the above posts,  I bet the poor students you look down upon are running circles around her academically, despite all the financial resources you’ve provided. You may have taught your daughter that she hit a triple because she was born on third base but her fellow students will be smart enough to understand that Brown was fairly easy to get into at the time of her grandparent’s admission and rewarding her for her birthright seems pretty ridiculous. [/quote]

I'm sorry that you are suffering and I understand that rejection is painful. My son is in med school now in a research powerhouse program and pretty much everyone in his class is coming from wealth. Meritocracy is an illusion.  [/quote]

Who has been rejected? Are those the imaginary friends you see in your head? You sound crazy.  [/quote]

+1.People with inherited privilege don’t take kindly to being displaced by more successful people.  That’s why this parent’s only retort to those who care about meritocracy is to say “sorry your kid has been rejected.”  Never mind that a lot of parents whose kids were accepted to elite colleges without legacy affirmative action don’t support legacy preferences.  Even many alum can see that legacy preferences have run their course.  They were original instated to reduce the acceptance rates of Jews who were high performing students but whom WASPs deemed undesirable.  [/quote]

Some of the language used on this thread speaking resentfully about "strivers" is actually very similar to the anti-Semitic language used to justify restrictions on admissions for Jews in the 1920s.  I guess things don't change much even 100 years later.[/quote]

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