We Don’t Do Legacy (2012)
This is the reality:<p>1. High schools that tend to send high numbers of people to schools with acceptance rates less than 20% tend to be dis-proportionally represented. [1]<p>2. High schools that send kids to good college are more expensive (either inherently, or because they&#x27;re in an expensive area).<p>Combine these two and you see the perpetual unfairness of education. Not to mention that MIT and other &#x27;elite schools&#x27; barely teach well anyways. Picking kids who were already predisposed for success is not education. Unfortunately, many disagree.<p>A real school would have 100% of their kids admitted at random and then, through some criteria, show how <i>they</i> created an environment that allowed those kids to succeed. This contrasts with the current system, which is basically survivorship bias anyway.<p>EDIT: I just want to add any many of these elite schools (high school and college) only <i>recently</i> began to admit women and minorities in particular.<p>[1] Some schools with high amounts of kids going to &quot;elite schools&quot;<p>- Stuyvesant<p>- Boston Latin<p>- Brooklyn Science<p>- Brearly School<p>- Spence School<p>- Harvard-Westlake<p>- Lowell High School<p>- Saint Ann&#x27;s<p>- Andover