I was surprised when they said 30% of Harvard’s incoming class are legacies. I imagine similar numbers for Berkeley. If it weren’t for legacies the percentage of each class in major colleges that is white would be miniscule
Harvard is private and can admit legacies.
Berkeley is a state school and cannot supposedly use legacy as an admission criteria. In fact, the way they discriminate against White people is to use “first generation” as an admissions filter - it’s a proxy for “child of an illegal alien”.
The current head of Berkeley openly admits that they use this to improve the “socioeconomic diversity” of UCB. Where she gets the authority to do that with our tax dollars I have no idea. But living in California you rapidly find out that the UC system is a daycare camp for the Socialists themselves and their enablers...like Susan “we stole your vid” Wojcicki.
And I should finish my post by pointing out again that there’s no way Wojcicki’s kid got in as just another Poor Poverty Streeken Mexican Eeemegrant who worked HARD to get into de beeg school de stoopid greengos built.
He clearly WAS an under the table admit, although his grandparents and Susie are all Stanford people. Just the Ruling Class here takin’ care of their own. And another reason why hiring UCB grads is a risky business: to know them is to realize they ain’t nuthin’ special. Forty years of engineering in the Bay Area and I can tell you I met NONE of them that I thought were any better then the average state school kid from Iowa.