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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dear Legacy Mom,

Who do you think you are kidding? Yale is open about the fact that is favors legacies and anybody who cares can find quotations from Yale admissions officers confirming that legacy is given positive weight in the admissions process and can be "very much in your favor." Be glad your kid got in and acknowledge that they had an advantage over other, equally qualified applicants. [/quote]
Take your snarky attitude and stick it in your pie hole.  No one's saying Yale (and every other college) doesn't give some preference to legacies.  What I found interesting about this study is that it tries to quantify the significance of that preference.  The author revealed two things which are consistent with common sense: (1) children of parents who went to top colleges tend to be pretty smart on average, and (2) legacy kids can only get a legacy preference at a limited number of colleges.  As a result, the oft-told narrative that legacy kids are dumb brats who unfairly steal college spots from more-deserving students is largely fiction.

To anticipate your false assumptions about me: (1) I'm no Yale legacy.  I'm pretty sure they'd have laughed my application out the door if I'd applied there. I suppose if I'd wanted to attend the big state school where my parents went, best known for its history of NCAA violations, I could have gotten some legacy benefit there.    (2) My kids are many years away from college, so I've got no horse in this race.  I just saw some interesting analysis in the article, and wanted to highlight it.

I sense you're fighting some larger battle with other posters, about topics that don't interest me, so perhaps you should get back to that fight now, and quit assuming everyone who posts is part of your war.[/quote]

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