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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the anti-legacy posters do you also oppose any and all legacy preference for kids of current and former faculty, staff and employees of the University (including those who are alumni themselves)?

What about legacy preference for kids of alumni who donate hundreds (or thousands) of hours of their time over the years answering the university's call to interview undergraduate applicants for admission in their town?

What about the alumni who spend hundreds of hours volunteering to organize the 5 year class reunions?

Should the relationship for those employees and alumni be a one way street with all the benefits going to the university?

My long experience with a school that offers a legacy boost  (for ED applicants only) is that a large percentage of "legacy" applicants fall into one of the above categories. That makes sense as those are the parents/kids who know the university better than your ordinary alumni whose connection to the University may not go much beyond some donations to the annual fund.

Curious whether folks on here think banning all legacy -- with zero exceptions -- really is the right approach.

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They are hoping for one of the ~300 slots at Harvard that went to a legacy.  Harvard admits 2318 students, and supposedly they admit 14% legacy (not sure if it's admit or of the actual class that attends).  so they want one of the 300*20 slots that went to legacy at T20 schools.  It's actually less than the 6000 because Harvard likely has the highest legacy admissions. So lets say 6000 spots, and estimate that 50% of those legacies would have gotten in anyhow. SO these people are complaining that their snowflake (who is already privileged, just not as privileged as those 6000), did not get one of those 3000 spots.  In the grand scheme of things, their kids wasn't getting that spot anyhow, it's a lottery crap shoot.

I agree that alumni who donate a lot, work for free for the university over the years should receive a perk when their qualified kid applies.  We cannot as a society remove all levels of privilege (nor should we want to).  Ironically the people who complain about legacy are largely still extremely privileged themselves, and daily take advantage of their privileges.  They only want them removed when it's not accessible to them.  [/quote]

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