Negative effects of legacy

ops
Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:46:15 +0000

I am familiar with an individual who got booted and years later his son very much wanted to attend the same school. The son was accepted and there was no issue. Some faculty still remained from the time the father had the untimely demise. The circumstances involved were never brought up and the father is very much considered a part of the school and the class of which he was a member. He never gave a penny to the Annual Fund for obvious reasons, until of course his son was accepted. Needless to say, his son did much better than his father, in all aspects. When he approached me about all this in the beginning, his dilemma at the time was explaining to his son what had transpired 35 years ago. He was concerned that the school would hold it against him, obviously they didn’t, in fact he said some in Admissions even kind of joked about it. The father was determined to have the apple fall as far away from the tree as humanly possible. So, no negative affects from black sheep members.