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A comment on Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh end use of legacy status in admissions. Parent comment

Re:Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh end use of lega... by Anechoic on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @12:22PM (#36788924)
pivoting to a productive, merit-based approach

For the right definitions of "merit", yes. I'm not confident we've figured that part out yet.

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Re:Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh end use of lega... by abirch on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @12:26PM (#36789018)
We can't even define the purpose of college. E.g., is it only graduating and Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Jobs, ..., Mark Zuckerberg are all failures?

Meritocracy works best if you have something to measure against.

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