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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]

I'd prefer to craft a class with students that earned a place at the school and want to attend rather than students who slipped in through mommy or daddy's name and attend that school only because their mommy or daddy wants them to attend that school.

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And how do kids earn those spots? By hard work? A lot of the time. But genetics and what they were born with plays a role there, too. My kid works harder than anybody he knows--seriously. He goes to an incredibly rigorous private school here in DC and works his butt off. He's a nice, active member of his school, and takes his classes seriously. But, he was born with some serious ADHD, slow processing, and executive function deficit. He is brilliantly ingelligent, but high school is hard because of the other issues. He will do great things in this world, once he just gets through high school. Why does somebody, who doesn't work as hard, but wasn't born this way, deserve a spot at some of these schools and he doesn't? Truly, they are not more "deserving." You simply have to stop being so one-dimensional in your thinking and understand that there is and should be a range of "deserving." And entry to good colleges doesn't, nor shouldn't, go to just one kind of student--the neurotypical, GPA-chasing striver. Let it go. These schools want a community--not an army of nerds.[/quote]

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