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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DH and I were both Harvard grads (public school kids, first in the family in each case).  Our DC thought legacy advantage was appalling and no wanted part of it.  Got into a peer institution EA, so we never had to sort out our feelings about it.

I’m ambivalent about it.  OTOH, I was first gen in my family to go to college FT (vs PT night school, while also working).  So it feels kinda effed up that legacy becomes problematic just when the alumns with kids who might benefit from it stop being from “elite” families.  OTOH, Harvard was life-changing for DH and I in a way it wouldn’t have been for DC, who grew up within those changed lives.  So I certainly get the “give this kind of transformative experience to someone who needs it more than your already privileged kid” logic.

Meanwhile, tuition has gotten so ridiculously expensive that, even without legacy, rich kids will continue to be grossly over represented at these schools. [/quote]

How do you know it was Harvard that was “life-changing”. You came from a family where you were first generation college.   Virtually any decent college under those circumstances would’ve been “life changing” for you.[/quote]

Nope, we both have sibs who went to a range of decent through public Ivy colleges and both we and our DC have very different lives than they and they kids do.  And FWIW, we were both first kids in family to go to Harvard, but our parents were college educated.  His dad at a state flagship. My parents (who went to college PT at night) gotten decent educations at what I think are now called directional schools — BA in Dad’s case.  MA in Mom’s.[/quote]

Why is your writing so poor?[/quote]

It’s not poor — it’s informal in an informal context.  Can’t tell if the one grammatical error (they vs their kids) should be attributed to autocorrect, lack of coffee, or multitasking, LOL![/quote]

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