I stopped short of accusing her of what other students would tell me: You didn’t really earn your spot. Mega-rich families have been buying their way into college for decades through completely legal, even tax-deductible, sc hemes. A decade or so after that lunch, while working at a nonprofit as a college access counselor to low-income first-generation college students like me, I made sure to tell them about legacy and development admissions. I had sincerely believed that when I stepped on campus I was leaving an unfair system behind, going to a place where my mind was valued more than what my parents did for a living. No one in my family had gone to college, so no one could tell me otherwise.

Source: New York Times March 16, 2019 18:32 UTC