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by mcphage 1090 days ago
> the ~99% of people who don't have that privilege

What percentage of accepted students have that privilege? It's pretty high.

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That's irrelevant, though, when you're talking about the vast majority of people who apply who don't get accepted because of those factors. Telling someone "you're privileged because a child of a Kennedy gets a leg up in going to Harvard and shares your skin color, even though you don't get that same leg up" is ridiculous, to say nothing of Asians who are discriminated against despite having relatively few legacies.
A quick search suggests that for Harvard (one of the institutions specifically sued here), it's 36% of the class of 2022.