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> legacy preferences Why does this even exist?

• pjscott 4y ago
  There's a market for getting underqualified students into fancy universities via legalized semi-bribery, but it would be bad for their image if they openly admitted to it. Hence the obfuscation.
• wheelinsupial 4y ago
  "In the United States, legacy admissions in universities date back to the 1920s. Elite schools used legacy admissions to maintain spots for Anglo-Protestants amid fears that Jews, Catholics, and Asians were increasingly taking spots at the schools.[7][8]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_preferences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_preferences
• twiddling 4y ago
  How do you think some of those fancy new wings/building get their names?
  • kwhitefoot 4y ago
    Where I come from some are named for illustrious alumni, some of whom financed the building. But as far as I know it didn't give their offspring an easier way to get accepted as students.