Thank you for posting that quote from The Crimson: “We are also perplexed by administrators’ claim that legacy admits are “better candidates on average” to enter Harvard. If this is true, then removing legacy status from consideration would not substantially diminish family connections to the University nor the donations that comes from them.”
Exactly. If those students would have been admitted without being given special preferences, then why not just stop giving them special preferences? Smart Harvard students who recognize the major flaw when the admissions office tries to get them to believe two contradictory things: Those students would get in without the big donor preference but we can’t put them in the same pile with other students.