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I'm not American but don't you have the same problem with rich kids whose parents donate buildings to get their kids through school? If so, do you also discoun

• jack-r-abbit 14y ago
  Is there really a problem in the US with a huge number of people donating buildings to schools to get their kids in? I did not realize this happens on a large enough scale to make that an actual issue.
  • GHFigs 14y ago
    It's less literal than that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_admission http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_admission
    • jack-r-abbit 14y ago
      Ah, yes. In a broader sense that probably is a bit more of an issue.
• btilly 14y ago
  That problem does exist, but happens to fewer people. And in my experience, those legacy kids tend to be quite well prepared, and from what I saw were judged to the same standards as other people. (They did, of course, have the option of choosing easier courses if they didn't want to work hard. But so did everyone else...) Furthermore it matters less in the work place. Because if your parents can donate buildings to get you into a school, your parents generally can arrange to help you get employed. Hence I as a random software developer am unlikely to be in a position of deciding whether a random rich kid should be hired as my peer. Unlikely, but not impossible. Several jobs back I worked fairly closely with a couple of "legacy" kids. They worked twice as hard as anyone else because they were afraid that they would be seen as just spoiled rich kids. Anecdotal, but it did not leave me dreading working with legacies in the future.