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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's great. Hope this happens in the rest of the country as well. [/quote]

The irony is that donations to these private campuses would not exist if not for some kind of implied payback in the form of legacy admissions. Like all sought-after recruits (including first gen students and URMs), even legacies have to meet a certain minimum standard—but to say that legacies should not get a preferred look is to ignore the “known” factor that they bring to the table. Take Yale for example….Legacy status tells the school “this family knows what it takes to be a Bulldog and will have the family’s support to accept admission (yield), succeed as a student, and carry on the school’s esteemed legacy” ….and that’s a nice safe bet for a school.
The other thing it does is reward its donors. And these schools desperately need donors.

The blue haired burn-it-all-down egalitarian protest crowd is going to learn soon enough that they can’t have nice things without donors.

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