>Legacy admissions discriminate by class (if you are well off to be part of a donor family, you get a leg up) "Nearly three quarters of them would have been re

>Legacy admissions discriminate by class (if you are well off to be part of a donor family, you get a leg up) "Nearly three quarters of them would have been rejected if they had been subjected to the same standards as other white applicants." It looks like simply having alumni or professors or donors for parents is not translating to the academic records one would need to get in on merit alone. But we would expect that having more money to throw at education would lead to somewhat better academic records. So while the argument seems a bit flawed, it also seems like one would never get rid of all economic factors. If it's possible to throw money at education to positively impact outcomes we'll always see a higher percentage of wealthy people making it by "merit".