Education: How VIPs Get In
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I think it suggests that he's glad to take advantage of one type of affirmative action for his own family while opposing it for people of a different race or of lesser means.
YOU WENT TO HARVARD AS AN UNDERGRAD. WERE YOU A LEGACY?
No. My dad went to City College of New York, and my mom went to Skidmore. In fact, my parents were both immigrants, exemplars of the kind of meritocracy that I believe in.
YOU'VE GOT A SON IN HIGH SCHOOL. WILL HIS LEGACY STATUS HELP HIM GET INTO HARVARD?
No, he's not applying to Harvard. Given this book and how colleges feel about me, I'm thinking of sending him to college in Canada.
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