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Legacy admissions at private universities are not blind auction. It's not only money. It's a American way to have a class system.

• JumpCrisscross 2y ago
  > Legacy admissions at private universities are not blind auction Donor admissions. I’ve literally heard Hamptons parents timing pregnancies to not overlap with billionaires’ kids, the theory being a million can buy a seat in an “off” year that would cost far more in an “on.”
  • nabla9 2y ago
    That's BS. Billionaires don't have so many kids. Legacy admissions take 10 to 25 percent of all admissions.
    • JumpCrisscross 2y ago
      > That's BS. Billionaires don't have so many kids What are you basing this being BS on? Harvard takes about 2,000 kids a year. The Dean's or director's list is about 200 of those [1]. If a few more kids come from families giving tens of millions, that will absolutely reduce the odds of a family giving high hundreds of thousands making the cut. [1] https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/10/18/day-three-harvard-admissions-trial/ https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/10/18/day-three-harv...