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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I dont understand why this was published. It's not particularly interesting and not anything we haven't heard before. Is she an editor's kid?[/quote]

I believe she's related to an editor in some way.  Ironic that.[/quote]

From an article about it:

In fact, the one notorious aspect of college admissions that virtually no one ever praises openly—[b]the preferential treatment given to legacy applicants [/b]who are admitted to schools because of familial connections—Suzy Lee Weiss doesn't touch in her Wall Street Journal piece.

Perhaps her sister Bari Weiss, a former Wall Street Journal editorial features editor, talked her out of it.[/quote]

I don't know.  I was legacy at Harvard and Columbia - multiple generations of family who went to both - and I didn't even get waitlisted.  I was a good candidate, not a great one, so the admissions team probably made the right decision.  But I think legacy is fading as a foot in the door.  [/quote]

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