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[quote=Anonymous][quote]So we should all publicly hurrah because the boy in the article succeeded, because he unlikely, given his situation. But then we should also be surprised legacies have much better outcomes. How does that make sense? I thought the whole point was that children of higher SES parents and/or ivy or equivalent educated parents were expected to do very well academically due to all the benefits they received. I'd think that is just playing out here, with no more advantage to legacy kids than athletes or URMs? I went to an ivy, as did my husband, in both cases for undergrad and graduate school. We expect our children will likely do the same. They have both tested 99% or higher on all aspects of testing so far, and there's no reason to think that that won't continue. If they have issues with academics, they will work the very late nights I did, and they will figure it out. Not one person my family has gone to an ivy or other top school with any legacy connection. We gone, collectively, to MiIT, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Cal Tech based on intellectual capabilities and a family ethic that hard work is critical. The idea that only the u under-privileged can have a work ethic is bullshit, but it does make a good story. And minimizing the accomishments of kids whose parents stated married and who aren't URMs is a great story line. For my part, I'll keep working hard, on my marriage and professionally, and will continue teaching my kids to do the same, even though the "underdogs" make the headlines. You do f have to make headlines, in the end you just have to be at the top of your field.[/quote]

George Bush is a typical legacy at Andover and Yale and then Harvard.  He did not have better outcomes, then or now.  Poor student.  Failed businesses.  Failed US Presidency.  The test scores and grades were average to below average. What he did have, as other legacies had over the centuries, is the opportunities (multiple) and the presumption of excellence (despite reality).  And the young man in the article gets the presumption of less than excellence (despite reality).  This has always been the American way;  from the framers of the US constitution restrictive meaning of [b]WE the people[/b] to present day core Republican teabaggers who yearn for the days of Bush-like entitlement and to maintain the status quo of inequality much as the framers of the US constitution in 1778.

Who are WE the people?  The raped and pillaged native American Indians, the blacks working on the plantations in Virginia and the South, or even our women... Who are WE the people?  the 47% of Americans Romney is hiding his loot from outside our shores to avoid paying taxes to his country.

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