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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of people lament legacy advantages, but simultaneously want them for their own kids. Including the politicians. [/quote]

Fully support it.  Private colleges should be able to pick who they want for whatever reasons they want.[/quote]

+1. Some schools want to be family traditions. Personally, I was crafting a class I would much rather have a kid who wants to be at my school than another kid who applied based on ranking and doesn't really care if they're at much school or another similar school. [/quote]

Every private school/high school/k-8 in the DMV has sibling and legacy preferences.  It's nice when you are at a school and everyone is so gung-ho about it and there is tradition.

If a school or university is private, they should be able to do whatever the hell they want.[/quote]

Yes they should---if Harvard wants to admit 100% white males with income over 200K that is their choice.  Not likely to do that because even they reconginze the benefits to having diversity on campus. 
  And it's nice to see that even elite private universities want to increase their first gen/pell grant (lower income)/any other diversity category over simply legacy, as the majority of legacy students fall into categories well represented already.  [/quote]

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