Altho you have a point here, your title-
Legacy colleges represent a discriminatory admissions practice I can not agree with, based upon the current connotation of the word discriminatory" / I mean, everything is discriminatory.
Having a better SAT discriminates against those that dont.
Having a great GPA discriminates against those that dont.
Being able to pay (or get a scholarship etc) discriminates against those too poor to pay.
Being able to understand college level work discriminates against those that are to mentally incapable of doing so.
Being a person very talented in college sports discriminates against hose who are poor at sports or handicapped.
But those are more or less fair methods of discrimination.
Is legacy fair? probable not. But is it an unfair method of discrimination? No. Anyone and everyone can have a parent who is an alumni. Eben Harvard, True 70% of the legacy were white, but that means 30% were not.
I wouldnt. Five or six times? Once was enuf. Five or six is rubbing it in.
I also will point out that you can get a fine college education without Harvard, Yale, et al. A srare college degree is fine for just about everything but law school.
Not so much, since Honors courses give you a GPA boots, e.e a A in a honors class usually counts as a 5, not a 4. And then once s student is on the straight A track there is great pressure to not give a B. All this crap about straight A is bogus and lies anyway- when I graduated HS (at a school considered elite) there wa sone- count em One A student, and I know her Pottery teacher was pressured into boosting her B (in his mind doing good craftsman work) to A (true artist). She was brilliant and a hard worker, but that does not mean artistic talent. Years later, the A students fill half a line on a page- well over a hundred- and the students were no smarter.