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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If legacy admissions went away, do you get how little would change for how few people?

It is such a weird issue for people to get exercized about. [/quote]

That reinforces my point, that it could be easily removed without much drama for most people. Elite families would still go to good colleges and as a whole the process would be more fair and competitive. As far as I know this is good for the society as a whole.[/quote]

No, it is no help for society to take it away.

What is does good for is building community at an institution.  One of my children would love to go to the university I went to, and I would love for them to do that.  It would be a great thing to share, just like I am sure you would love to share things in your life with your children.

No doubt my child would like and do fine at a peer university.  But so would the non-legacy child.  So send your kid to the other school, and let my highly  qualified kid go to school I went to.

More importantly, these are private institutions.  Why do you feel entitled to tell them how to operate?[/quote]

I don’t feel entitled. This is something that can be challenged in courts like in any normal democracy :

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/legacy-college-admissions-preferences-backlash-772c88be?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqe_4iwmiJOOG_odfOs3K1um7dmGK9Tl7KBrRhBDZvUbSMfmn82CvrN8&gaa_ts=6900e580&gaa_sig=GiW532c1Bp_SgLRAoI0ULOEdDiRjwdRWNCbWUvl-dVEOKARyytoLKuiQYGVk8o5R6-OhdjiXi-5SQKROgHsmuQ%3D%3D

And by the way has already been done in California. If you don’t like this you can send your kids to college in other countries, no problem at all. [/quote]

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