How deeply ingrained in the process are legacy admissions? Like, is there an actual box on the application form for “Check here if your ancestors attended this school”? Is it a matter of wealthy donors who can work their way up the phone chain and ask for special favors? Or is it just a frequent topic for tiresome essays about “Please write 1,000 words about why you want to attend this college”?
I suppose some would argue that knowing how to leverage whatever connections to which you might have access is an important life skill. I also suppose everyone would love to do away with tiresome admission essays one way or another.
(ETA: This is all kind of addressed in the article, but now that someone’s replied I guess there’s no point in deleting this. Oops.)
