<HTML>In a message dated 1/16/2003 5:44:46 AM Pacific Standard Time, farmelantj@juno.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">By legacy preferences, I mean the sort whereby a half-educated nitwit can be admitted into an Ivy League institution like Yale, simply because his dad and granddad were graduates of that institution. </BLOCKQUOTE> Just for the sake of precision, half-educated nitwits whose parents went to Ivy League institutions are not guaranteed admission. First they have to apply.  I am not up on Yale, but at Princeton offspring of alumni have only about double the odds of beign admitted compared to non-alumni applicants. About 1 of 5 legacy applicants  is admitted. About 1 of 10 or 1 of 12 people from the rest of the pool is admitted. As far as Bush, the more important question is how quickly he will manage to undo the effect of ousting Lott... DC </HTML>