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>Merit admissions give the legacies legitimacy. Legacy admissions give the superhumans opportunity Taking you at face value your superhuman friend is going to

>Merit admissions give the legacies legitimacy. Legacy admissions give the superhumans opportunity Taking you at face value your superhuman friend is going to White House parties, while you have the legacy admissions, such as G.W. Bush's of the world, running the White House. I'd rather see this system and cycle broken than a few well deserved people get invited into the inner circle.

jankyxenon 7y ago
Please defined "well deserved". Sounds nice. Who decides?
- throwaway_law 7y ago
  In this context the commenter I responded to who described his friend as superhuman, and as I explained I was accepting that at face value
akhilcacharya 7y ago
Perfectly said. Social engineering to benefit the current elite while selecting a few token representatives from the real world doesn’t do a thing to help 99% of this country.
- mav3rick 7y ago
  Harvard has way more than legacy admissions. Why do you care anyway ? In your head it mustn't be good with all these "legacy admissions".
  - throwaway_law 7y ago
    There is an elite/political/ruling class in the US, and one way they maintain their status is through a false sense of meritocracy. For example, GW Bush isn't just a spoiled rich kid and son of a former President, he went to Yale and Harvard, thus he can be marketed as smart and hardworking because those are the top institutions in the country. Yet, no one ever accused GW of being a Rhodes scholar, and those Ivy League credentials are nearly impossible for non-elites, but essentially given to the ruling elite and qualifying these people for the best jobs, even being President of the US. Legacy Admissions are a fraud on the working class, and indicative why the US has the lowest social mobility of any 1st world nation.
    - akhilcacharya 7y ago
      The current US president launders this credibility as well (he talks about Wharton more than W talked about Yale) and transferred it to his kids despite being a transfer student.
    - mav3rick 7y ago
      A counter point 3 of my friends who had no money from India got accepted into Harvard purely on the merit of their talents. Same with the son of a blue collar worker here. You have conveniently setup a shield in your head where this ceiling will never let you break it. Well, how about you look inside and grow yourself ? Instead of calling yourself not a part of the "elite".
      - akhilcacharya 7y ago
        "Merit" doesn't exist and can't be defined. Anyways I doubt anybody from India with "no money" can get into Harvard. ("No money" in India means begging on the streets or subsistence farming..)
        mav3rick 7y ago
        They couldn't afford to pay the fees. They got full rides.
        akhilcacharya 7y ago
        Barely anybody in India can pay $60k a year (30x GDP per capita) of course they’d get full rides! That doesn’t mean “no money”, it just means “probably upper middle to upper class”.
        mav3rick 7y ago
        I know people who have paid . Upper class can be very rich too.

jankyxenon 7y ago

Please defined "well deserved". Sounds nice. Who decides?

throwaway_law 7y ago
In this context the commenter I responded to who described his friend as superhuman, and as I explained I was accepting that at face value

akhilcacharya 7y ago

Perfectly said. Social engineering to benefit the current elite while selecting a few token representatives from the real world doesn’t do a thing to help 99% of this country.

mav3rick 7y ago
Harvard has way more than legacy admissions. Why do you care anyway ? In your head it mustn't be good with all these "legacy admissions".
- throwaway_law 7y ago
  There is an elite/political/ruling class in the US, and one way they maintain their status is through a false sense of meritocracy. For example, GW Bush isn't just a spoiled rich kid and son of a former President, he went to Yale and Harvard, thus he can be marketed as smart and hardworking because those are the top institutions in the country. Yet, no one ever accused GW of being a Rhodes scholar, and those Ivy League credentials are nearly impossible for non-elites, but essentially given to the ruling elite and qualifying these people for the best jobs, even being President of the US. Legacy Admissions are a fraud on the working class, and indicative why the US has the lowest social mobility of any 1st world nation.
  - akhilcacharya 7y ago
    The current US president launders this credibility as well (he talks about Wharton more than W talked about Yale) and transferred it to his kids despite being a transfer student.
  - mav3rick 7y ago
    A counter point 3 of my friends who had no money from India got accepted into Harvard purely on the merit of their talents. Same with the son of a blue collar worker here. You have conveniently setup a shield in your head where this ceiling will never let you break it. Well, how about you look inside and grow yourself ? Instead of calling yourself not a part of the "elite".
    - akhilcacharya 7y ago
      "Merit" doesn't exist and can't be defined. Anyways I doubt anybody from India with "no money" can get into Harvard. ("No money" in India means begging on the streets or subsistence farming..)
      - mav3rick 7y ago
        They couldn't afford to pay the fees. They got full rides.
        akhilcacharya 7y ago
        Barely anybody in India can pay $60k a year (30x GDP per capita) of course they’d get full rides! That doesn’t mean “no money”, it just means “probably upper middle to upper class”.
        mav3rick 7y ago
        I know people who have paid . Upper class can be very rich too.