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To: Rose in RoseBear

Blech, here is my admittedly very biased opinion (I am an undergraduate planning to seek admission to grad school next year).

I despise AA. Ive been busting my hump the last 3 years to make stellar grades, and the thought that someone less qualified could take my slot at that prestigious graduate school because I have the wrong skin color or my dad didnt contribute tons of money to the school sickens me.

Im a white male, with working class parents. The only socio-economic group who truly gets shafted by AA/Legacy admission policies.

That being said, Im not wholly against legacy preference, because it does help the school by pulling in tons of money.

/rant


16 posted on 08/07/2004 9:12:18 AM PDT by somniferum
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To: somniferum

You should be as much against legacy admissions as you are against racial preferences. Legacy admissions is basically buying a seat in a school.


23 posted on 08/08/2004 2:51:58 AM PDT by cyborg
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