I think legacy admissions are bad and wrong. But I also don't think that removing legacy admissions will make a dent, not on the state of college admissions, and especially not on any broader socioeconomic context. Prestige schools doing bad things only highlights that it's a mistake to let prestige schools exist in the first place.

▲

impossiblefork 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

I think it might.

I think it might weaken the connection between 'elite' status and the particular university, to the point where the university actually becomes something academic, almost technical, again.

▲

dddgghhbbfblk 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I think I'm not understanding your comment correctly--are you saying that you think Stanford should be shut down?

	▲	RainyDayTmrw 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		No, I'm saying that prestige schools are a symptom of a broader socioeconomic failing - something about how power is obtained and maintained, which I struggle to articulate properly. Shutting down prestige schools does nothing for the broader failing in broader society; at best, it papers over a visible sign of the failing.