But what's that have to do with Bush and Harvard?
His dad went to Yale so I can see the legacy theory.
He wasn't rich enough to have influence at Harvard.
-sm
--- Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Sam wrote:
> > Please explain?
>
> Legacy typically means that you had a relative that
> went to the school
> so you get a pass on other requirements. This also
> applies to rich
> kids, or kids with influential parents. This is
> because the school
> figures the kid will go on to be handed some big
> job. Then their bio
> will list the school, thus improving the school's
> reputation and
> adding to its donor base.
>
> For example, the U of Chicago GSB just built a new
> campus with
> donations from alumni. The average alum in the New
> York area donated
> $5 million; not bad.
>
> In any event, legacies usually can't compete with
> the mental
> horsepower of the real students, not do they usually
> have the drive
> to, so they languish along with Cs. The students
> who earned their way
> in get As - that's why they got in!
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