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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While I get that legacy admissions mostly helps white kids, this also prevents URM kids whose parents went to these schools get in on the system.[/quote]

URMs legacy advantage at top schools is negligible. Whites had hundreds of years of a head start. The pipeline is already baked in.[/quote]

Legacy generally only applies to the parent, not earlier ancestors. The idea that the elite colleges are filled with spoiled white kids whose family attended for six+ generations is laughable if you had any exposure to these schools. At most we are talking about very few students who fall into that category. The big changes towards meritocracy in admissions starting in the 1960s pretty much ended most of that type of legacy admission, the "gentleman's c" aka Bushes and Gores.

By the time I arrived on campus in the very late 1990s, the typical legacy admit was already more likely to be a nice Jewish kid whose parent(s) went to the school as a first gen in their family in the 1960s.

If schools end legacy, it'll be interesting to see the effect on donation dollars. My guess is that it'll dry up substantially. After all, what's the point? But schools are definitely not getting rid of donor admits. You donate $100M, your kid is getting in. [/quote]

Look up when these elite colleges started and get back to us.

#clueless [/quote]

I'm guessing you didn't attend any of the elite colleges?

And more to the point, the connected kids of rich donors are still getting in one way or another. [/quote]

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