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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think this is great.

Even if this gets appealed down the line, it is now against the zeitgeist to have legacy admissions. Tide is turning and will turn elsewhere too.

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Now that there have been more diverse admissions for decades, legacy doesn’t carry the weight anymore.

Admissions have all the tools to identify connected families, from expensive sports to social networks, that relying on “legacy” isn’t even needed anymore.

Read up on how they started promoting athletics when Jewish students started earning admissions on academic achievement.  [/quote]
Right--wasn't that the era when they looked for the "all around" candidates, meaning they were supposedly not "grinds"? It played on Jewish stereotypes of the era.[/quote]

And I cynically think this is another work-around to decrease the number of Jews in the class. So many Ivy donors with legacy applicant kids are Jewish today. This became very apparent in all the pushback against pro-Hamas activism last year. Harvard is said to be aiming for no more than 2% Jewish, in line w American population. [/quote]

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