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Three reasons why you're wrong:

1. Universities are MUCH MORE SELECTIVE THAN BEFORE. A generation ago, entry into the Ivy League was much easier than today. Most middle-aged people who went to Ivies would not get in today. So there is no reason for their children to have preference.

2. Nature and nurture do not work how you think: even if their parents were supremely able in every way, why do you think their children would automatically be the same way? Why would you not rather judge each student on their own merits instead of making general assumptions that kids of Ivy graduates must naturally be more worthy than others?

3. Racism. Previous generations of students were chosen among a much smaller population, nearly all of them white, and if you go back farther in time, nearly all of them male and Christian. So granting privileges to their descendants perpetuates an unfair ratio of admittance that disadvantages all the excellent candidates from other groups that did not have a change before due to ethnic, religious and gender pressures.

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