Legacies-Fair?

The Beginning of a Revolution

            The college admission’s focus on legacies is biased in many different ways and should be ended. Universities from all over the country use legacies as factors in student’s admissions process. Is this fair to the students who receive 4.0 GPA’s and perfect SAT scores? Kids from everywhere get rejected from ivy leagues because of this time after time. This is so unfair to these kids since they had worked so hard and even when they might be smarter they don’t get what they deserve. The structures in which these schools have processed these conclusions have brought concern and worry to children with parents who went to bad schools. Although the opposition says that students whose parents were legacies do better at these universities rather than the students who don’t. In the report entitled, “Legacies of Injustice”, Shikha Dalmia reports that “The New York Times reports that Harvard turned down 1,100 applicants with perfect 800s on the math SAT this year. Yale rejected several with perfect 2400s on the three-part SAT exam. Princeton said no to thousands with 4.0 GPAs.” These statistics show an amazing ratio in which people that get outstanding grades still not receiving an acceptance letter from a top university. Everyone in the country believes that the system in our nation should be equal and everyone should get a shot. In the end, legacies can be favored in different ways, although I view them to serve a higher purpose.