Yale's Legacy Admissions Donor-Based Admissions

I had this image of Yale as being this prestigious institution That was really meritocratic those about sort of the best of the brightest You know years later Jesse Jackson would say it's not the best and the brightest, It's the richest and the whitest. And I told people I said Yale bit Eales, you know thought the south the rural small town south that was from they thought deliverance was a documentary. But what I discovered relates to this case which is that Yale's legacy admissions donor-based admissions and affirmative action were all working together. The problem was how do you do legacy admissions? How do you let George W Bush get in when he obviously qualified? And how do you get

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