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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand this animosity towards legacy admissions. We all know that even [b]the richest colleges have to balance their classes with full pay kids so that they can admit lower SES kids.[/b] Given that no college can just admit only kids who qualify for need based aid, what's wrong if the college gives preference to full pay legacy kids over full pay non legacy kids. And let's face it. Most legacy kids are going to be full pay.

Are folks really arguing that even the full pay slots should not take legacy into account. That is stupid. Why not let in kids whose family have traditional links to the school, instead of just letting in a random rich kid provided of course that the legacy kids are qualified

Legacy admissions make more sense than most other preference based admissions[/quote]m

If historically the school has only admitted white applicants, legacies is then discrimination and favors the white as recent immigrants wouldn’t be legacies.[/quote]

I don't think your assertion is necessarily true. From what I understand at the top colleges you are not actually paying the full price of the education because colleges like Harvard use some of their endowment to enrich the experience. Everyone at the wealthiest schools is subsidized in some way.  I guess except the student's who have families that can donate $1M.

Now at Vassar for example, they have the highest number of Pell grant recipients and they do have to balance full pay with financial aid students. They almost go broke doing this, but I personally admire them for it. For a solid understanding of this, check out Malcolm Gladwell's podcast on the subject. http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/06-my-little-hundred-million. His chat with the Stanford president is fun.

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