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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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, Ivies have compensated for past transgressions more than other groupings of schools through general financial aid and holistic admissions. That said, legacy priority is on the way out, as it should be.[/quote]

I am a female child of a Jewish Yale graduate who then went to Yale myself. My dad was the first generation of Jews who were admitted in any numbers. He then was able to pass legacy to me for the first time. He was there when it was male only, but then by the next generation, I could go as a female. So now that a Jewish female can finally pass legacy status on down to my kids, I find is supremely ironic that now people want to get rid of legacy. It's not just females or Jews either. Yale was very diverse when I was there, so all my black and brown and LGBTQ classmates are now passing legacy status on down too.

Really makes me wonder who is opposing legacy status now. [/quote]

Exactly. In the 90s, when most current parents were in school, there was a lot of diversity, as affirmative action was in full effect. So there are plenty of minority legacy opportunities. So the minority people who whiine about legacies only benefitting white kids are a generation late. A minority legacy is the gold standard - barely need a pulse to get in.[/quote]

I also wonder if it's the unhooked whites who complain about legacy. [/quote]

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