discourse abt credentialism & elitism & value of “elite education” etc etc aside, Literally just get rid of legacy admissions!! like just fucking get rid of them it’s so easy lmfao
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private institutes are capitalist entities though and removing legacy admissions is basically "nullify the grandfathered subscription plans your early adopters bought into", except the subscription was for millions of dollars (counting compounded annual donations) FTR i'm down
mit doesn’t do legacies and they are doing Perfectly well in terms of money & prestige while also iirc doing much better than peers in terms of socioeconomic diversity
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yeah, no legacy is 100% better for an educational institute. it makes a huge difference that MIT *never* had legacy admissions, and very intentionally so. it's one of things that's easier to keep doing if that's how you always did things
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proof: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobility/massachusetts-institute-of-technology … there's really no excuse for any college to continue legacy admissions. (on the other hand, other issues with modern college admissions don't just go away when you nix legacy... and these debates are both more complex and more controversial)
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their only tangible excuse is just that it makes them more money, legacy admissions hold no water at all from an educational outcomes perspective. private institutes are still businesses, they preserve their brand only insofar as it preserves their finances
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