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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find it interesting that people seem to think private universities are required to accept and educate the "smartest" kids that apply, however you define smartest (test scores, GPA, rigor, etc).

What if schools like Yale, which has been around since before the country was founded, did an analysis and decided, "It is better for the future of the nation if we teach critical thinking, morality, ethics, history and leadership skills to idiotic wealthy and powerful children (GW Bush, Don Trump Jr), because like it or not, those children will have an outsized impact on the world, rather than only teach the top .1% smartest kids, who are capable of learning on their own without us."

Why can't a school decide that dumb legacies are actually the most important people to educate?  [/quote]

They can, of course. And anyone who spends a lot of time around legacy admits knows your characterization is correct.

But that doesn’t mean the rest of us have to admire the quality of the graduates of the school. The schools are welcome to lean even further into their origin stories of being finishing schools for the wealthy legacies. And the rest of us are free to see the reputation of the schools be shaped accordingly. [/quote]

Except your characterization is not correct. Most legacies are very very far from dumb.[/quote]

Perhaps most are not dumb but I’ve never met a single one that would have been admitted without the legacy boost and I’ve met many. [/quote]

I asked for backup and instead of providing that, you cite your own opinion. Oh please.

You're met many legacies, huh? And you are the judge of their intellect AND you somehow know whether they would have been admitted had they not been a legacy? I'll say it again, oh please. lol, you made my day, this was just too funny!

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