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[quote=Anonymous]Legacies and athletes not "taking" some predestined spot either. We need to get it out of our heads that there will ever be some clear meritocracy in admissions that anyone could even agree on. Schools have also never just wanted kids with perfect scores and GPAs. The most selective schools could have enrolled nothing but those students for decades. The earlier part of this thread where people thought MIT didn't factor in being a recruited athlete made me chuckle. 
Many of you on DCUM must be directly or indirectly involved in hiring people and should know that it isn't easy to just figure out who the "best" person is for a job, almost certainly not just by looking at a resume, cover letter, and transcript without even putting them through multiple interviews. It is also hard to think about which job applicant might have the best skillset, work ethic, and ability to learn to grow into the best manager or director for your company. 
All of this merit and x should be admitted while y shouldn't seems crazy. Yes, admissions offices shouldn't illegally discriminate against groups of people (which it looks like they did in some cases) but if they want to take the best football player and then take the person whose dad and grandfather attended the school, they are 100% free to choose to do that.
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