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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's great. Hope this happens in the rest of the country as well. [/quote]

The irony is that donations to these private campuses would not exist if not for some kind of implied payback in the form of legacy admissions. Like all sought-after recruits (including first gen students and URMs), even legacies have to meet a certain minimum standard—but to say that legacies should not get a preferred look is to ignore the “known” factor that they bring to the table. Take Yale for example….Legacy status tells the school “this family knows what it takes to be a Bulldog and will have the family’s support to accept admission (yield), succeed as a student, and carry on the school’s esteemed legacy” ….and that’s a nice safe bet for a school.
The other thing it does is reward its donors. And these schools desperately need donors.

The blue haired burn-it-all-down egalitarian protest crowd is going to learn soon enough that they can’t have nice things without donors.

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What a bunch of crap.  There's no guarantee that a legacy student will "carry on the school's esteemed legacy."  When I think back to my undergraduate Ivy league degree, some of the students who stand out to me as being particularly among the poorest performers in my classes were legacies and recruited athletes, and those legacies have not been standouts in their careers.   [/quote]

They are talking about the esteemed legacy of getting cushy nepo jobs and paying the Ivy tax to maintain the charade. [/quote]

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