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[quote=Anonymous]If you have it, take advantage of it. As a system though, of course it's absolutely unfair. It's a system that exists to perpetuate economic, social and political inequality given the opportunities these top universities grant to students in business (top hedge funds, consulting firms, tech startups love touting their elite school grads), politics (Biden is the first non-Ivy grad president in how long? How many non-Ivy grads in the SC - 0), et. Unsurprisingly, schools that don't have legacy admissions have reputations for being far more rigorous despite being less "prestigious" ( a completely nebulous concept) - primarily MIT, Caltech and Berkeley. For publics, UC's basically dominate the top 10 public schools. And with the likes of George W Bush, Trump etc. touting Ivy degrees, there's a general stigma among the general populace now that these schools tend to admit the wealthy rather than the smartest students (which has always been true)[/quote]
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