justin_o_guy2 wrote on 07/03/23 at 09:09:08:Testing being equal, how would I decide?
Names in a hat.
Sitting here, with nobody to answer to, that sounds easy enough. Reality dictates addressing the Legacy issues. It's a long established tradition to accept the descendants of alumni. Cold hard truth is, donations flow,, so what is the answer?
What is the Real question? How many people would be affected? We aren't talking about Just Harvard. We're talking about Every College in the country. So why the hyperventilating and posturing over a few hundred POSSIBLE applicants when the racist ideology of affirmative action has screwed thousands of white people out of the position they earned by having better grades and test scores? I got screwed out of a job with the phone company forty years ago, because I was not pregnant, couldn't get pregnant and I was white. He shut the door and told me that. He said he would hire me on the spot, but the fact is, he had all the white men he was allowed. Sadly, I Needed the money, because I had spent everything I made selling my last slaves.
So, all else being equal, the nod goes to the legacies,,
It's a Business, not a social engineering enterprise. Pissing off your donors is probably not brilliant. How would a business school decide?
And how many times will that scenario play out?
It's ludicrous to operate in a system that screws thousands in order to avoid some injustice to a few.
If they have the money to get into Harvard AND they have sufficient scores to be in the running for acceptance but some Legacy is equally qualified, they can surely find a suitable option,, and maybe get a scholarship.
What if that scion of the legacy is black?
Is it okay NOW?
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