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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So your inference is that the 2 legacy aren't smart or as smart as the others. In these cases, you would be wrong. Those kids would have gotten in on their own merit, irrespective of legacy status. It is really an offensive concept the inference that these  kids would not have been admitted otherwise.[/quote]

It simply is not true that legacy didn't help them over the line. They are literally in a different pile. Plenty of just as smart, non-legacy kids don't get in. Every year. Legacy matters. Own it. It does not mean they aren't qualified; it means they had a hook that other qualified kids didn't have. Without legacy, they may not have been admitted, just like all the other geniuses and valedictorians who got rejected.[/quote]

Add in when BOTH mom and dad went to Yale.  Smart kids usually follow.  They are also very well resourced.  But the parents are not the problem.  They are the solution.  More and more generations of multiple high achieving parents are going to become the norm. They should be the norm.  Rewarding “the unhooked” who work hard and become the hooked over time is the way it should be.  Expect every unhooked kid who gets into a top tier school now to be married to another high achiever and producing high achievers in the future.  For all the unhooked who don’t get in, watch them do well at very good undergrads and then get into great grad schools and fight hard to get their kids into the top schools down the road.  Strivers as far as the best can see!  [/quote]

The thing is everyone has a hook. It could be legacy parents. it could be being an URM. It could be being from Alabama (even if you are the white child of two doctors). It could be being on the sailing team. I personally am OK with getting rid of legacy admissions, but there would still be a lot of hooks that don't necessarily have a lot to do with merit and that advantage wealthier kids.[/quote]

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