Worse: it's affirmative action for powerful people.
Finally we have numbers about a practice everyone knows is corrupt, and they're even worse than I expected: "The admit rate for legacy applicants over this period was 33.6%, which is 5.7 times higher than the admit rate for non-legacy applicants." http://public.econ.duke.edu/~psarcidi/legacyathlete.pdf …
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That's why Tony Soprano made $50K donation.
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Medieval institution with midieval inheritance of special rights.
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Stanford states candidly that legacy applicants have about a 3x improvement in odds over non legacy.
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Now that we've seen Harvard's numbers, this sounds like bragging...
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University system is ripe for massive disruption. Amazon or Google could/should do it ASAP.
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If you speak out against this (or any college admissions hurdle) and say it's bad, you're signaling that you can't/couldn't compete.
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