Legacy Admissions

🇺🇸 It's interesting that the same people who complained about Affirmative Action are now complaining about Legacy Admissions.

But no one is complaining about the hundreds of thousands of dollars that wealthy parents spend on college preparatory schools, extracurricular activities, or professional tutoring. Some parents even spend more than four thousand dollars to have their students admissions essay written by a professional writer - the prospective student doesn't even write their own essay for the college application, which is cheating. Obviously an impoverished child is not going to have the means to do these things, so this is a serious disadvantage in the college admissions process, a much bigger disadvantage than Affirmative Action or Legacy Admissions.

I think what is really happening here is a group of wealthy parents are upset that their child did not get a seat at an ivy league school or even a first-tier school, but they believe that their wealth should have been able to secure one. So now they are trying to eliminate any possible disadvantage their child might have had, no matter how small it is, and they are using civil rights as their reasoning. But if they were really concerned about civil rights and fair college admissions, then they would be highlighting all of these other injustices in the college admissions process, which they do not even speak of, and undoubtably do not want to change.

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