[uoaei]

Interesting angle, but feels like post-hoc rationalization more than anything.

Events where students can meet alumni seem far more productive, if slightly harder to organize. I'm sure Harvard can incentivize their alums well enough to attend, considering their sizeable endowment.

[HDThoreaun]

Harvard's alumni are so powerful exactly because of legacy admissions. Politicians and executives and supreme court justices generally aren't coming from MIT.