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[quote=Anonymous][quote]They take your tax-payer money from working 40 hours+ per week to build worldwide prestige and repute, and then shut your children out of their schools, not based on your child's academic merits, but because you yourself, as the parent, are not wealthy enough to have attended the school yourself or donate to buy a seat.[/quote]

I'm not a legacy of any place that I'd be excited for my child to attend, so have no skin in this fight, but college admissions have never been solely about an applicant's academic merits. Never, not once, at any point, in our history.

The US system isn't a "first past the post" test-based admissions system like some countries, and expecting it to function that kind of transparency/predictability is just going to end in frustration.

I personally think legacy admits are nonsense, but the actual business case for legacy admissions is that they lead to higher donations which should, theoretically, allow for a better and more accessible education for the entire student body. Many of these schools also care a lot about "culture" and "belonging" and there's no better way to be sure that someone's going to be proud to be a Tiger than if they grew up in a Tiger home. [/quote]

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