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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many of the arguments on this thread could also be applied to legacy admissions.

If Legacy goes, then faculty should start assuming that the perks for their kids are next. [/quote]

These are two completely different things.

Legacy rewards kids for being born to parents who had parents who could afford to send them to an elite college during some pretty sad economic times (and conveniently dodged the draft)

Faculty hook and/or tuition break is an employment benefit - part of a benefits package and a contract. An earned benefit.

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1. in both situations, it's kids being rewarded for their parent's accomplishment

2. do you think poor kids get on tenure track? Those professors usually have elite and expensive undergrad degrees as their starting point[/quote]

No---#1 is false statement.  They are being given reduced tuition, which is a benefit of their parent's employmen[b]t. Many employees offer "scholarships" for employees kids who have at least a 3.X GPA[/b].

What do you mean by #2? Plenty of professors who did not attend elite and expensive undergrads....[/quote]

Can you point to any that offer 40 or 50k a year? [/quote]

The tuition benefit has been disappearing for decades, or is becoming increasingly restrictive. [b]Public universities rarely offer these anymore.[/b] For private universities, if it's part of the Tuition Exchange network, there is a lot of red tape "trading" spots from university to university and those types of scholarships are not guaranteed. It is not as sweet of a deal as posters in this thread seem to think it is. Lastly, children of faculty want to go to the college of their choice (just like all other high schoolers), and don't want to be limited to the one college in their hometown or a list of colleges dictated by a network.[/quote]

A quick perusal of their website shows the 50% tuition remission is still offered at the Big10 university I attended.  [/quote]

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