Universities should ditch this rotten legacy

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The movement to end legacy admissions — preferences some universities give to the children of alumni — is having a moment.

Good. With rising populist outrage toward experts and elites, universities should have long ago ended admissions practices that appear to promote hereditary privilege. Yet a Post analysis found that more than 100 selective schools, including all eight Ivy League institutions, still practice legacy admissions.

Now that the Supreme Court has banned universities from engaging in race-conscious admissions — in a case targeting Harvard, which offers legacy preferences — legacy policies threaten even more the legitimacy of institutions that claim to promote admissions based on merit and to value diversity.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/05/legacy-admissions-ivy-league-fairness/
 
BidenPresident said:
The movement to end legacy admissions — preferences some universities give to the children of alumni — is having a moment.

Good. With rising populist outrage toward experts and elites, universities should have long ago ended admissions practices that appear to promote hereditary privilege. Yet a Post analysis found that more than 100 selective schools, including all eight Ivy League institutions, still practice legacy admissions.

Now that the Supreme Court has banned universities from engaging in race-conscious admissions — in a case targeting Harvard, which offers legacy preferences — legacy policies threaten even more the legitimacy of institutions that claim to promote admissions based on merit and to value diversity.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/05/legacy-admissions-ivy-league-fairness/
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(Emphasis mine)

Are you, by proxy, arguing that universities should drop legacy admissions in favor of race and gender based ones? How bigoted of you...
 
I oppose losing legacy admissions in private schools.
Tradition is more important to the great private universities than trendy hippie concepts of egalitarianism.

I want to keep private schools private
and improve access to public universities
to all who bothered to do the necessary secondary school preparation.

Provide post secondary school vocational training to the non-academically oriented.
That's at least equally important.
 
Nothing wrong with legacy admissions....they threaten don't threaten anything mentioned when all is said and done...
 
TOP said:
Nothing wrong with legacy admissions....they threaten don't threaten anything mentioned when all is said and done...
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It could be a problem with taxpayers picking up most of the tab.

I believe private schools can have them, however.
 
If wishing somebody would get shot in the head were a crime,

I don't think that we'd have many non-criminal humans in existence.

I would have an extremely difficult time understanding somebody who truly doesn't hate anybody.

I know that many people might claim that, of course,

but I'm not gullible enough to believe any of them.
 
BidenPresident said:
The movement to end legacy admissions — preferences some universities give to the children of alumni — is having a moment.

Good. With rising populist outrage toward experts and elites, universities should have long ago ended admissions practices that appear to promote hereditary privilege. Yet a Post analysis found that more than 100 selective schools, including all eight Ivy League institutions, still practice legacy admissions.

Now that the Supreme Court has banned universities from engaging in race-conscious admissions — in a case targeting Harvard, which offers legacy preferences — legacy policies threaten even more the legitimacy of institutions that claim to promote admissions based on merit and to value diversity.
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That would eliminate the children of all the minority graduates of those schools which dilutes the diversity objective.
 
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