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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She seems like a great kid and deserving--but all I could come away with was----yeah-you were legacy.  Period.  Plenty of kids with higher stats/ECs got rejected because they didn't have that bump.

So the same kid w.out the legacy would be telling a different story in that article.[/quote]
Not really, because she was also admitted to Johns Hopkins in addition to Dartmouth.[/quote]

Yes. But Ivy legacy is different. My kid got into Hopkins, Duke. Pomona and several T20s, but WL at D & 2 other Ivies with perfect record, rigor, national level ECs and great essays.  It’s fine because this deserves to be there, but if one kid is a legacy and a comparable kid is not - the legacy at an Ivy always gets the spot.[/quote]

Ivies talk about equity and diversity but their preference for legacy exposes their hypocrisy [/quote]

Sort of, kind of...the difference now is all the URM grads don't want legacy to go away now that their own kids can benefit.  The fact is anyone that has legacy wants their kids to benefit from it no matter what their race or income level.
 
Also, as far as I know, there is nothing stopping an Ivy from looking at the race of a legacy alum that an applicant puts down on their application.  Seems like a little workaround on the Supreme Court decision.[/quote]

Legacy should be abolished for all colleges even though I know it is unlikely. They like the money too much. Hats off to those few colleges that have abolished legacy![/quote]

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