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[quote=Anonymous]Typical of the NY times. Play the Social Justice Warrior role, without getting simple facts straight. The only way Legacy admit rate can be seen as egregious is IF and ONLY IF their profiles in terms of qualifications look worse than a typical admitted students. A lot of research actually shows that is not the case. The fact also is that SAT scores have no correlations to wealth. Rich black kids score worse than poor white kids and poor Asian kids often score better than rich white kids. Also legacy is material only in the top 20 or so schools, so the study that compared whether alum giving would decrease if legacy was eliminated and found that it would not is useless. They would need to eliminate schools like Texas A&M and other schools in the 40-100 range and then redo the study. Then they would discover that it would make a big difference. Colleges are not stupid. This is total hit piece with no logic, but lots of shaming tactics. [/quote]
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