[jmwilson]

Curtailing legacy admissions would push some privileged kids to second tier schools and cause more of this happen, instead of concentrating it at a small handful of top schools.

The event where some kid of humble origin connects with a kid of the Social Register crowd and forms a lifelong bond comes from mostly odd chance, and it tends to recedes after the initial mix of roommates and floormates are assigned. Social circles gel and people start sorting themselves almost right away.