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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The top schools have had proportionate minority(black, hispanic, and asian) representation in their classes since the 80's and 90's some no doubt as a result of affirmative action. Most of the time schools value legacy status of parents more than grandparents or other distant relatives so its been enough time that the minority kids applying today can have a similar proportionate chance for legacy status as whites. It's not a meritocracy but it's not really that racist anymore either. Of course there are probably more hispanics and asians in the student population today compared to before so they may have a slight disadvantage in terms of chances of legacy status but not blacks. [/quote] This is false. I was at Penn in 80s and it was overwhelmingly white. And Penn was one of the more diverse Ivies back then. The Ivies are all doing better now with racial and ethnic diversity. But legacies harm, don't help, that effort. [/quote]
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