To: logan
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?
To: Clara Lou
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.
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01/04/2004 3:25:37 PM PST by
logan
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