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[quote=Anonymous]Legacy admissions at elite universities matter because universities and colleges want loyal, invested alumni who view themselves as part of a "family" of those who attended the university. Those alumni will go on to give the college money and will recruit and hire interns and graduates, and otherwise help out their own kind.

1st Gen students are attracted to these institutions because of the very benefits this alumni sense of tradition, community and loyalty provide.  You can get a good education at any decent university. It's not as if the quality of what goes on in the classroom at say, Yale, is soooo much better than what goes on at say, Michigan State.  So the attraction of these institutions is the kind of connections and opportunities they'll have because they attended, and those opportunities are largely provided by loyal alumni.

Killing legacy admissions is killing the goose that laid the golden egg. The rich and the connected will always protect their own, and if they no longer feel an affiliation with their college, will start discounting the value of that degree and seeking out other status markers to identify those in their own "tribe," such as attendance at a specific private high school or some sort of club membership, or zip code, or whatever.

I'm not saying this is right, but it is how it is.

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