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[quote=Anonymous]I don' think legacy will fall when affirmative action falls. It is much easier to conceal the affect of legacy admissions. Colleges are not required to report the admit rates, and application profile of legacies. It is also similar to ED, where some rich kids have an advantage. ED is not going away anytime soon. Legacy will be similar. Also it is not clear that legacy admits are under qualified than their non hooked peers. In fact given their higher SES, they may be more or at least equally qualified, so there is no way for somebody to prove that they got in only because of the legacy. Besides colleges can claim that they have a legitimate interest in admitting a certain percent of legacies for fostering a sense of generational continuity and for better fund raising purposes. Most of the data I have seen that argue that fund raising is not affected, is limited, old, based on colleges where alumni fund raising was not the most important way of raising funds or is from schools that were not hyper selective. [/quote]

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