[Clara Lou]

I find legacy admissions to be nothing but aristocracy.
"Aristocracy"??? I went to A&M. My uncle, my father, my cousin, my three brothers, and, later, my younger sister attended the university. The reason we were able to attend and graduate is because it was our hometown university-- we could live at home and get a degree. Does that sound like "aristocracy" to you?

[logan]

The reason we were able to attend and graduate is because it was our hometown university-- we could live at home and get a degree. Does that sound like "aristocracy" to you?

No, I wasn't addressing the fact that it's a hometown university.

Giving preference to people who's parents went to a school over people who just moved to town or who are from elsewhere is unamerican. It creates a select group based on family lines who are more apt to get something than people outside those family lines. That's aristocracy. Just because A&M isn't Yale doesn't make the merits of the system different.