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Old 10-11-2004, 12:41 PM   #27 (permalink)
Glava
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Originally Posted by Lockjaw
So you should be given a nod over somebody else who might be more qualified than you based upon you chosing a school(a high school no less) at age 7 because you drove past it all the time? The only thing I could see that would be logical in that situation is not having a prospective student take an entrance exam if they went to an affiliated school as opposed to the student from an unaffiliated school having to take it. But if you are substantially less qualified than another applicant legacy shouldn't be used as an field leveler.

I was just reading about the tech schools in India and how hard their admissions programs are. They don't give any respect to who you are just what you can do and they produce some of the best engineers in the world because of it.

If Timmy the 5th is barely able to pass his high school Geometry class but Tron from Brooklyn can think circles around him Timmy shouldn't be allowed in over Tron just because everybody in his family went to that school.
Where'd you come up with the name Tron? Is that a stereotypically "ghetto" name?

Also, you are using the logical fallacy called a "straw man" by refuting an extreme scenario that has never been proposed, and thus requires no refutation.

Anyhow, for public colleges, legacies should not count at all. For private, I'd rather that they didn't but if it is given a small weight, then it's more reasonable.

Last edited by Glava; 10-11-2004 at 12:46 PM..
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