In Karabel’s article, “The legacy of legacies,” one can see how unfair our school systems are jut base solemnly on the information that some prestigious universities use when making an admission decision about a student. In this article it mainly focuses on how universities such as Yale, Princeton and Harvard used a family legacy or involvement with the university to make decisions on a student’s admission application. One example given here is the one of former president George Bush. He was a student who did not excel athletically or academically, who scored a mediocre score on the SAT’s. However, he got into the school because his father and his grandmother had been alumni of the university and contributed to it. Karabel also mentions that
