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Are they better academically? Or do we assume they are because they went to a better school? A lot of Ivy League school entries are "legacy" which means a pare
by Guvante 3y ago
Are they better academically? Or do we assume they are because they went to a better school?
A lot of Ivy League school entries are "legacy" which means a parent went there.
Remember if you let in a minimum number of something that means you wouldn't have without a limit.
Legacy students aren't more gifted academically or they could get in as part of the academic pipeline, right?
- pfannkuchen 3y agoI believe GP was complaining that rich people can also make their kids actually more qualified through better, more expensive schooling, not that colleges are letting them in when they are actually under qualified. I agree that legacy admissions should be abolished yesterday.
- Guvante 3y agoYes but the implication didn't quote anything to back it up as being correct. While certainly it has been shown that students with better upbringing perform better on such things the amount of that is way less than the difference in students. Thus it isn't as simple as "those who are given all the tools do better" there is also an aspect of something else. After all "they are just better students" would imply only a similar increase in application acceptance. The is a large trend of "overrepresented groups are just better" again and I prefer to push back on "I don't have evidence of why else there is overrepresentation so obviously it is fair"... Especially when Legacy is literally the opposite of fair.