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[quote=Anonymous]My father was a Hopkins professor so we benefitted from the 50% of undergraduate tuition Hopkins paid for faculty kids at any college they went to, although this was tuition only, not room and board. But my parents gladly took the benefit and used it for their kids' education. None of us went to Hopkins, although doubtlessly we could have if we wanted to as we ended up at Ivies or elite LACs.

My undergrad had a fair number of kids whose parents were professors at HYP. There was a notable number of those kids. If you added up all the children of college professors, would it be fair to say half of them were offsprings of HYP professors and the other half were offsprings of professors at the remaining 4,000 higher education institutions across the US? Quite possibly. I have also met, over the years, people whose parents were faculty at schools in college consortiums and went to other colleges in that consortium, and at a generous discount, possibly even free (at least for tuition, not sure about room and board). Kenyon and Denison and a few other midwestern schools had this nice benefit for their professors.

I don't begrudge colleges giving their faculty some kind of perk with preferred admissions. At most schools this makes no real difference. But my observation about HYP faculty kids does underscore that the obsession with affirmative action, legacy, donor and other preferred admissions is only really a factor at a tiny handful of schools in the country, possibly even only 4-6 schools. No one is upset nor cares that Kenyon gives free tuition and preferred admissions to faculty. But people are upset if Harvard does it. [/quote]

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