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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]L[b]egacies at state schools are so wrong. It's taxpayer funded. not anyone's personal fiefdom[/b] [/quote]

Wait until you are a legacy parent at a state institution and you have poured money into undergrad and grad school and your child has the necessary stats and they don't get in because those dollars and being a booster don't count anymore.  Those legacy dollars are drying up fast.[/quote]

[b]Doubt they’ll care[/b].[/quote]

Yes, UVA wants the money.  There was a piece in WaPo a few years back about legacies that give big bucks.  But, instead. those slots are going to OOS, international, URM. Questbridge, low-income, Blue Ridge Scholars, athletes, first-generation, the odd musician etc.  When those slots are given to non-Virginians, how does that make any sense to Virginian legacies (I am not - I went to Harvard, where legacies count for even more) and who have paid in taxes for 30 years?  [/quote]

What needs to happen is for  Virginians to demand more seats and for the state to fund it.  The school could easily grow by 200 or so for now, with funding for housing and the like.  It would not diminish prestige or elite standing at all.  [/quote]

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