- cross-posted to:
- news@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- news@lemmy.world
You must log in or register to comment.
Wait, this wasn’t known? I thought this was standard practice for all prestigious schools.
This shit happens in hospitals, too.
In every facet of life the rich, wealthy and powerful choose to put their descendants before others. It’s literally what modern society is built upon: the idea that your children will have it better than you did.
That’s everyone.
But we should be able to trust systems and institutions to keep things on the level .
On what level?
Have you ever worked anywhere and saw that people didn’t put their friends, family and coworkers ahead of the others?
Have you ever seen a human system that didn’t put “others” behind whatever group they decided to create?
Even nonprofits and charities end up playing favorites. Once any organization gets to any real size it’s going to be corrupt. It’s human nature. All of humanity competes over this world’s limited resources. People will do anything to win.
It’s not “human nature” per se, it’s human nature within this specific material context.
We cultivate competition on every level of society. We shouldn’t be surprised when people turn everything into a competition.
No, this is Capitalism and our culture. There were and still are societies where there is very little competition between individuals or even where the concept of “competition” is unknown.
This works with small communuties living naturally, like tribes in South America. But I think with technological advancement and a cultural shift towards are more social and less individualistic society this could also work on greater scales.
Not sure outside the US. Also, even in the US I only heard Stanford doing this openly iirc and if I think about it.
In the US, Legacy admissions are common at any school selective enough to have admissions.
And all the conservatives scream and yell about affirmative action
This is another case of “is anyone surprised”? Next up you’ll tell me Yale does the same thing
I’m shocked. Shocked I tell you!
Actually, not that shocked.
A bit shocked that anyone is surprised by that.
It amazes me every day that anyone still believes the shitty US has even a glimmer of meritocracy.
Bears under fire for shitting in the woods
Yes, but how is this different than always?
Purged by creator
It’s more than that at Harvard. ALDC is legacy admissions.
While only 5% of applications come from ALDC students, they make up about a third of acceptances.
That means a legacy applicant is at least 6x more likely to be admitted than a non-legacy.
On a larger scale, I think this points out the flaws in using a school’s “reputation” to evaluate how qualified a given graduate may be. If employers and the general public no longer gave the Ivies the consideration they often get, then where someone goes to school would not matter in the end. But even with standardized testing, and other performance metrics, employers (and others such as graduate schools) always factor in an applicants’ schools’ “reputation” when considering the applicant. Even though time and time again, it’s been shown that the school does not make a difference, it is the individual. The primary way in which the school influences a person’s success is in the implicit bias everyone has about their perceived reputations.
You have to know that the employee learned what you want them to know though. Yeah, you can and will teach most of what they need to know, but you have to know the basics. Also, the reputation of the ivies is to know that you know the right people and have a pool to pull from. It’s a lot like being famous, it’s usually nepotism, wealthy helping other wealthies and they teach stuff you don’t learn at the other schools.
