Legacy admissions helped me get into college. They should be abolished.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : He said this was a special advantage, as was affirmative action in a different way.
61% : This was back in 2000, and affirmative action had been around on a large scale since the '60s.
60% : When my mother passed away, I was cleaning out her apartment and found my high school thesis on affirmative action.
59% : In order to graduate from high school with honors, I needed to write a thesis, and for my topic I chose affirmative action.
55% : Supreme Court ends affirmative action in admissions.
54% : Just last month, the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions, and in response, many have protested legacy admissions, which are believed to primarily benefit white students.
42% : My mother didn't talk much about the Jim Crow era, nor about political issues like affirmative action.
33% : So I added a brief line of disclosure to my thesis without actually reconsidering my view that affirmative action was a bad thing.

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