re: #404 Obdicut

No, the argument is being made that legacy students have an advantage, and that policies banning quotas and preferences have specifically sanctioned privledging legacies.

How is that a punishment? I understand you’re asserting it— now show how it’s a punishment?

Why should that student get picked over another student who has an equal or better academic record?

Maybe “punishment” is the wrong word but nothing better comes to mind. (Maybe “Penalty” would be better.) Universities depend a lot on funding from alumni programs and by not being allowed to consider whether a family has been a good customer or not is a financial punishment.

There has to be a decent reason in order for the federal government to disallow something and I don’t think “because you’re probably white” is a good enough reason.