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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ivies still prioritize legacies?[/quote]

The Ivies will always prioritize legacies. They are the ones that came up with the concept (in order to keep out jews and catholics).  I have a lot of respect for JHU, MIT, Amherst, Pomona and other schools that have decided not to give consideration to legacies.[/quote]

A pretty cool admissions criteria! Just for that exclusive concept I would go look elsewhere. You don’t have to be in an Ivy to succeed in life. [/quote]

To defend them a [i]little[/i], there are a LOT of schools that once did not accept Jews and other groups, including women - it wasn't just an Ivy thing. And there are a lot of schools besides Ivies that consider legacy. It's about money more than exclusivity, but since most people marry homogenously and therefore breed kids that look like them and worship like them, the effect was exclusivity. In some ways, [b]Ivies have compensated for past transgressions more than other groupings of schools through general financial aid and holistic admissions.[/b] That said, legacy priority is on the way out, as it should be.[/quote]

Don’t forget they also gave us a lot of really crappy politicians.[/quote]

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