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Legacy admissions are the point of going to private school. If you want fair, there's plenty of public universities in the country, where meritocracy rules and
by OkayPhysicist 3y ago
Legacy admissions are the point of going to private school. If you want fair, there's plenty of public universities in the country, where meritocracy rules and all that. Private universities, on the other hand, have a different value proposition: If you are rich and well connected, you can go to an extremely good school, where you can meet other rich and well-connected people and the high achieving lower class people. Likewise, for the lower class people, if you can meet their high achievement bar, you can network with other high achieving people and the well-connected, and have your education subsidized by the high costs the school is extracting from the rich students.
This is a win-win for everyone involved. Hell, it's a win for everyone else, too, because these conditions are breeding grounds for extremely high-impact individuals.
- lapcat 3y ago> Hell, it's a win for everyone else, too, because these conditions are breeding grounds for extremely high-impact individuals. What do you mean exactly by "high-impact"? And is that good impact or bad impact? The rich are getting richer, and everyone else is treading water at best. I'm not sure how that's a win for everyone?
- massysett 3y agoIn other words, it’s a tool for the rich ruling elite to preserve its hegemony regardless of merit. The rich win, all others lose. This is in my view an absolute disgrace and is the opposite of what America should be even if it sadly is exactly what America often is.