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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of people lament legacy advantages, but simultaneously want them for their own kids. Including the politicians. [/quote]

Fully support it.  Private colleges should be able to pick who they want for whatever reasons they want.[/quote]

+1. Some schools want to be family traditions. Personally, I was crafting a class I would much rather have a kid who wants to be at my school than another kid who applied based on ranking and doesn't really care if they're at much school or another similar school. [/quote]
Why would you say that?
[b]Nobody goes to college because of family tradition[/b]
People apply because it is a good school and ranking reflects that
Family tradition kids to be at that school is the same as that of every other person [/quote]

There are a lot of SLACs that are family tradition and those kids prefer to be at that school rather than the school down the rode that's a spot higher on the rankings. Most school prefer to have students that want to be there not students that just go to the best school that they get into  [/quote]

My kid was tempted to go to a LAC that is ranked 50-100 because of family over the T30 national university and the T20 slacs he got into because he had heard great stories about it from family members, had been there and liked it, would receive merit aid etc. I encouraged him to go to the higher ranked school because, as much as I like the LAC where my husband I met,  I thought the other school was a better fit, but it was a near toss-up for him.  Do you like sports teams that your family rooted for in your youth?  It's a similar thing.[/quote]

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