Originally Posted by ultramarina
Ah, here we are: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/education/09legacies.html?_r=0

Btw, I find legacy admissions...gross, but I can't say I'm not going to use what I have, I guess. Maybe I'll rise that far. We'll see.

I do NOT understand what the legacy system is for-- other than to build institutional endowments.

WE joked heartily with faculty that my DD would make a "third gen legacy" at {profoundly unpretentious alma mater}. You know, if it were the kind of place where that kind of thing mattered.

grin

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