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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For all of you that are okay with legacy preference, are you okay with affirmative action?  Same thing but in reverse.  [/quote]

I am ok with both. [/quote]

+2. DC1 is the 3rd generation at Brown, where DH's grandmother established a scholarship. I can see why the school would want us versus someone who sent 25 copy/paste applications to whatever US News ranked at the top that year. [/quote]

How special for your DC1.  I guess she didn’t need to send 25 applications like the rest of the unwashed masses because she knew she had an advantage as a legacy.  [/quote]

Do you think only rich heiress legacies are capable of tailoring an essay to explain why Brown? Brown has more than its fair share of mediocre wealthy kids and was the last Ivy to become need blind.[/quote]

You're not explaining why your child wants Brown or other elite college. She seems desperate to join this "mediocre wealthy kids" club, despite the fact that these schools are terrible and admit lowlife idiots like us who can't stand strivers and desperate social climbers. She would be better off at a college without legacy consideration, where her 10 point SAT increase will lead to a life of greatness.  [/quote]

Who do you think you’re talking to?  I have two Ivy League degrees ([b]two colleges ranked far higher than Brown[/b] and accepted without any legacy privileges unlike your daughter) and [b]kids who are far too young to think about college admissions.[/b]  But if you want to demean everyone who doesn’t have your daughter’s legacy privileges and enough wealth to endow a scholarship at Brown as low life strivers, you’re just making the case for why some legacy applicants don’t deserve to be there. *** By the way, Brown is less transparent than Harvard and Yale about the admissions stats of legacy students but if it’s comparable to those two Ivies, the legacy bonus provided to your daughter was far more than 10 points on the SATs.  [/quote]

Apparently with someone without a degree and with elementary school kids, who is having a mental crisis at 1 AM about college admissions. Get a Xanax, go to bed, and in 10 years make them apply to whatever top 25 will be at that time. Going back to my opinion about why rankings are so important for strivers. [/quote]

They live in CA, stupid.  It's not past midnight there.[/quote]

And this is why Brayden, Jayden, and Logan will end up at Chico, where they belong. [/quote]

You're really not making the pro-legacy privilege side look smarter.  You know on this newfangled Internet, people can post from many different time zones.  They may even be in another country.[/quote]

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