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This one has always been truly baffling to me. By all means, make sure that need-based scholarships are plentiful, but isn't great academics the entire point of
by ryukoposting 4y ago
This one has always been truly baffling to me. By all means, make sure that need-based scholarships are plentiful, but isn't great academics the entire point of the Ivy league?
I was never going to make it into an Ivy anyway, but I remember learning about that system as a middle-class high school kid and thinking "huh, sucks for me I guess." Too rich for need-based scholarships, too poor to pay full price.
- camel_Snake 4y ago> but isn't great academics the entire point of the Ivy league? No, that is just branding. If these institutions were truly based on merit the legacy system wouldn't exist.
- whimsicalism 4y agoArguably. The legacy system exists to provide funding that can be directed to students of merit. It is also unclear the extent to which legacy programs influence admissions. Legacy applicants have higher acceptance rates, but we would likely also expect this in a situation where there was no preference for legacy admission.
- horns4lyfe 4y agoExcluding middle class kids is the point. The needs based scholarships are an obfuscation.