bigmagazinedaddy:
It’s foolhardy to not give the children of your alumni who support your school and help the school’s rankings by doing so an advantage in admissions. It’s not like every kid wants to go to their parents’ alma mater, and there are no hard and fast rules saying someone else can’t go because a school accepted legacies. Maybe it’s different for public schools, but any private school that turns its back on a qualified legacy applicant deserves the hit in almuni donations they create.
Preferring legacies means that the college is effectively saying that unearned inherited privilege (that is often added to existing advantage) can sometimes override earned merit.
While about 60% of private colleges consider legacy status, some do not.https://mitadmissions.org/help/faq/legacy/ https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/just-to-be-clear-we-dont-do-legacy/