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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 pirate787 on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @12:22PM (#36788935)
Carnegie Mellon is a private university, and obviously there's already a strong public commitment to college education through subsidizing the student directly.
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Re:Carnegie Mellon, University of Pittsburgh end use of lega... by underlipton on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @12:49PM (#36789440)
It's a private university founded with the intent to be a public good. It exists ostensibly to be a counterweight to the ills brought about by the concentration of wealth and power under its founders, in recognition of their outsize influence on society.
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