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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why can’t he be gracious and say something to acknowledge that legacy may have helped? He can shrug and say, “Yeah, I’m sure it helped, even if it’s not enough by itself without the other stuff like grades, etc.”

Congrats to your son, and please realize it’s spur grapes from students who aren’t lucky enough to have a non-merit-based small thumb on the scale. The system isn’t fair and that is what it is. Your son can be kind in this scenario and not take it personally. [/quote]

Why should he be gracious here? They haven’t done anything that deserves grace.

I’d tell my kid to tell them to F off.  That’s the response that comment deserves. Preferably while wearing the sweatshirt of the college that rejected them. [/quote]

Do you always teach your kid to lie?[/quote]

How is telling them to F off a lie?

Fine I would tell them to say “yes I got in because my parents were legacies. If your parents weren’t stupid they could have attended the school too and then you would have been a legacy. Sucks for you.”

You want these kids to wear a hairshirt because they had a legacy tip. You telling your kid to wear one because you’re well off? [/quote]

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