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[quote=Anonymous]@ 13:54 Legacy preference is important for raising funds, passing along traditions and getting volunteers for all those Alumni jobs (visiting schools, spending hundreds of hours interviewing kids, helping the sports teams ect.).  I like that my kid shares a suite with my roommates kid and that we know parents of many of his friends.  We spend more time and give money to everything. We have generational experiences which impact how we alumni spend our money.

If you made Harvard admissions like Caltech it would no longer be the same great institution and it would no longer be desirable to many people.  The students you rage against for the last 400 years have created the thing that make Harvard special... the combination of rich/poor/diverse/athletic/nerdy students throw together and exposed to all.  It is where students find out that whatever they learned it was narrow, limited and provincial. Kids find out they are not that smart/rich/sophisticated/correct or everything else.  But they learn that they can be whatever they want a billionaire or a teacher... anything.  kids with big dreams smarts and access.  You don't get famous poets, authors or inventors based on SATs and high school grades.  [/quote]

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