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> I get annoyed by legacy admissions as much as the next guy, but this strikes me as problematic. An institutions' membership or selection criteria is pretty fundamental to their right to exist.

Eh, it's pretty fundamental to KKK's right to exist! Businesses (e.g., US colleges) have to comply with Title VII of the Civil Rights Acts which curtail what they can set as their selection criteria.



Title VII has nothing to do with legacy admissions.


Civil Rights Act only excludes discrimination against protected statuses. Organization legacies are not one of them.


Read up on disparate impact. It could very well be argued that legacy admission is effectively ethnic discrimination.




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