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Weekly Roundup: Affirmative Reactions

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The Importance of Legacy in Admissions

The Harvard Crimson wrote that the school's practice of giving preference to applicants who are 67.8% white underscored the need for affirmative action. We usually don't question whether students who are children of alums alumni had access to lavish resources and high school belong at selective colleges, despite such students being granted special consideration for admissions. The other thing that people have mentioned here is giving a tip or a kind of priority to recruited out. So let's just think about one sport, and then I'll stop on the athlete thing. And if you're listening in your row, I'm not trying to belittling your ability; I can go on another line.

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