Should There Be Dekoven's Argument Against Legacy Admissions?

While Dekoven argues a very strong point against legacy admissions, he states that they are unfair and wrong. What he does not say is that every story has two sides! I both agree and disagree with legacy admissions… What does the word legacy admission mean to you? Most teens entering college will be apart of legacy admissions, whether the legacy, the admitted, or the left out! I bet you will never guess someone famous who got into an Ivy league college who was under qualified! As a freshmen in college I just got through with the application process, what a ton of work. Although I didn’t personally apply to any ivy league or private colleges, many of my friends did. The top five in my class, all applied to Yale, Harvard, Geneseo, Geneva and other popular colleges. So even though I was not affected by legacy admissions, one of my friends were, or may have been… It makes one wonder, were you a victim or a beneficiary of legacy admissions?
One of my dear friends from high school, whose name shall remain anonymous, applied to Yale, and was not accepted.
She had almost a perfect score on her SAT, and with held a high average in high school, ranging from an A- to an A+ throughout her four years of high school! Just knowing that someone like her, completely qualified, and tried her hardest to get into her dream school was still not accepted, while George Bush was accepted to Yale university. The catch was that he was a Legacy. That’s not the worst part, our former president, Mr. George W. Bush himself was accepted into Yale, and it was definitely not by merit. He scored a 566 on the verbal SAT and only held a “C” average throughout school. In your mind.. Is this fair to
you? DeKoven tells us, Penn State is another University that admitted 41% of legacies and enrolled 14% of that 41. Dekoven argued that even public universities engaged in segregation until 1954, and even then reality set in for women and colored people. They had to wait for the laws during 1960-1970’s to be passed! Yes, I understand that life may not be fair, but college selections are supposed to be as fair as possible… or so I thought. College of course is just another notch on the unfair stick of life. I am a legacy to Cornell University, my grandfather, my aunt, and my uncle all attended. My uncle donates tons of money to the university, he won’t tell us any exact figures, but I know it is quite a bit. All of the money he donates goes to the research part of the university as far as I know. After he graduated in 1985 with a double major one in physics and one in chemistry, he further went on to get his PHD at Berkeley University of California. Then he moved to Illinois and has a job at Illinois University. and is a scientist, and his job is trying to figure out how to make buildings more earthquake proof, and how to predict a little sooner when earth quakes will occur. He is a Professor. His job title is Assistant Director of the National Center for Super Computing Applications. His job allows him to travel all over the world, Turkey, Brazil, and China. Now this essay is not about him, so I’ll get to the point his job all translates into… he makes a lot of money! Him donating so much money may be able to help me get into Cornell. Or it may help me, but I don’t want to attend that university. Even being on the reverse side of things, I would not want to take the opportunity away from someone who deserves it way more that I do. Or someone who has worked all throughout high school, to get into their life long dream school. It’s not fair of me to take their spot. Just as it was not fair of George W. Bush to take someone’s spot either!