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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At Harvard, approximately 30% of the enrolled students are legacies.  While regular applicants have a 3-6% admittance rate, legacies have a 30+% admittance rate.

Schools tend to guard their legacy figures tightly, but this was revealed during the lawsuit at Harvard. [b]I believe that all schools should drop legacy preference.[/b]

I recall an interview with Sebastian Thrun, who started Udacity and was a professor at Stanford.  He opened up his online graduate level computer science course at Stanford to everyone in the world.  He had thousands of students.  When he finished all of the grades, he realized that his best graduate CS student at Stanford ranked something like #1040 in the class. The adage that there is more talent than opportunity is true.    [/quote]

I would agree to that if you could also tell me how you can fund the school for its long term financial health so that it can maintain the resources for its research advantage and a significant number of poor family kids can have the opportunities to go to the school without paying.
Don't just imagine a world in ideal terms, think the premises practical as well.[/quote]

The research does not show a significant relationship between alumni giving and legacy preference.

http://production.tcf.org.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2016/03/08201915/2010-09-15-chapter_5.pdf

It is a false assumption that getting rid of legacy preference will result in lower giving.  Several universities have gotten rid of legacy admissions within the last decade or so and have not seen a drop off in alumni giving. 
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