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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think anyone is in denial.  Most of the posters say it helps.   It’s a question of whether you can draw any general conclusions about the legacy pool or claim that you must be hooked to be admitted.   [/quote]
Exactly.  It's the folks dismissing certain admit as merely "legacies" who are, without any evidence, implying that these students were somehow less qualified or deserving on the merits.  When in fact the opposite is generally true.[/quote]

Schools would be a lot less white if they didn't take legacy status into account. Just look at schools where legacies matter (Harvard) and ones where they don't matter (MIT). [/quote]

Jesus.  These schools already boast that they’re at 50 percent “people of color”?  What do you want?  Eighty percent?!  Let’s get rid of racial preferences and admit based on merit.  Period.[/quote]

If they did that schools would be 80% people of color. They’d all be Asian and white people would still complain and try to find a new way to rig the system. Face it, all white people want is  a system where their less qualified kid gets in.   You throw around the word merit but that’s not what you want. [/quote]

I disagree that they would all be Asian. They are building well rounded and diverse classes. Diversity is more than race or religion. They are trying to build a well rounded class full of exceptional students, scholar-athletes, geographical differences, personality differences. [/quote]

Oh - so not merit after all.  You want to scream merit because you think it will mean more white people, but then when it becomes apparent that it doesn't, then we start in with 'personality'.  I see - when you say a well rounded and diverse class, you mean Germans [u]and[/u] Italians.

You want to see what true merit admissions looks like?  Stuyvesant High School in NYC uses a single test to determine admissions.  It's 75% Asian/18% white.

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I think that's the breakdown of Blair and TJ too.[/quote]

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