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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Personally, a a LMC to MC girl from a small town, first generation college attendee at a then need blind top university, I found having classmates n the dorm who were socioeconomic elites and whose families had gone there for generations to be culturally enriching. I saw how to dress, how to buy wine, what kinds of accessories worked. These were multigeneational alumni families but they got in on their merit, not lower standards. MIT.[/quote]

If you are saying this was at MIT this is a sad troll. MIT has never done legacy. And no one drinks wine there. Not to say that taste in wine doesn’t matter but OpenAI and Anthropic don’t care about those things. MIT is about actually doing stuff, legacy an uninteresting joke. Signed, MIT alum. [/quote]

MIT is an excellent example that you can perfectly have an elite university without legacy admissions. The university just admits the best and most talented kids in the world, and that’s all. No mysteries in the admission process.[/quote]

Except for athletic recruits. And their process is no more transparent than anyone other college. [/quote]

Sure. So you are saying that since there are athletic recruits, legacy admissions are justified ? Thats some sort of an argumentum ad populum. Think about it and then come back to this thread again. [/quote]

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