LEGACY Assignment
BA3300
Summer 1 2015
One More Time
1. The discussion at hand is whether or not legacy students should have a better chance of getting accepted into a school.
2. Yes, considering a Cromwell legacy is four times more likely to gain acceptance than the applicants without any connections or special talents, this is a significant number.
3. Cromwell assumes that legacies are more likely to do well because they have a family connection. They also assume the legacy students are less likely to transfer to another school. The school is really banking on the family loyalty to make this kind of claim. While it might be true for many of the students, that’s a big umbrella to fit al legacy students underneath. The school is assuming intelligence of legacies just because their parents attended Cromwell. The school also gives athletes and minorities special consideration. Legacies will become major donors to the school once they become alumni. This is only backed by a research study published in Cromwell Alumni Magazine which stated 78% of legacies donate to the school and only 36% of non-legacy graduates donate in their first two years of graduating. How true this is depends on other factors such as how the magazine conducted their survey and how credible the source is.
4. This argument was made by Tanya’s friend, Hope, who has a close friend who works in the admissions office. She seems to have a very biased opinion, which I don’t find to be very credible.
5. Assumptions made:
“Legacy applicants are more likely to do well when they get to Cromwell, because they know what college is all about”
“Legacies won’t ever want to transfer to another school”
“If your parents graduated from Cromwell, that means they must have been smart – which means you’re smart”
5. All three statements listed above are incredibly loaded and slanted. There’s no way Hope can know what these incoming students are capable of, even if they are legacies.
7. Logical fallacies: “If your parents
Summer 1 2015
One More Time
1. The discussion at hand is whether or not legacy students should have a better chance of getting accepted into a school.
2. Yes, considering a Cromwell legacy is four times more likely to gain acceptance than the applicants without any connections or special talents, this is a significant number.
3. Cromwell assumes that legacies are more likely to do well because they have a family connection. They also assume the legacy students are less likely to transfer to another school. The school is really banking on the family loyalty to make this kind of claim. While it might be true for many of the students, that’s a big umbrella to fit al legacy students underneath. The school is assuming intelligence of legacies just because their parents attended Cromwell. The school also gives athletes and minorities special consideration. Legacies will become major donors to the school once they become alumni. This is only backed by a research study published in Cromwell Alumni Magazine which stated 78% of legacies donate to the school and only 36% of non-legacy graduates donate in their first two years of graduating. How true this is depends on other factors such as how the magazine conducted their survey and how credible the source is.
4. This argument was made by Tanya’s friend, Hope, who has a close friend who works in the admissions office. She seems to have a very biased opinion, which I don’t find to be very credible.
5. Assumptions made:
“Legacy applicants are more likely to do well when they get to Cromwell, because they know what college is all about”
“Legacies won’t ever want to transfer to another school”
“If your parents graduated from Cromwell, that means they must have been smart – which means you’re smart”
5. All three statements listed above are incredibly loaded and slanted. There’s no way Hope can know what these incoming students are capable of, even if they are legacies.
7. Logical fallacies: “If your parents