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[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]

Gross. You sound racist.  And your perspective that kids don't where they go as long as they end up in a SFH in McLean...what planet are you living on?  No teenager wants that. [/quote]

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