Sucks for our kids?

From the Chronic(cle of Higher Education):

A new study by researchers at Princeton University has found that the children of alumni -- commonly known as "legacies" -- are far more likely than minority students or athletes to run into academic trouble in college if admissions preferences got them through the door.

The farther a selective college lowers the bar for a given legacy applicant -- as measured by the gap between that applicant's grade-point average and the mean for that institution -- the lower the grade-point average that the student is likely to earn, according to a paper written by the two researchers who conducted the study, Douglas S. Massey, a professor of sociology and public affairs, and Margarita Mooney, a postdoctoral fellow in Princeton's Office of Population Research.


The only thing remotely mind-blowing about this is the headline. "Children of Alumni are UNIQUELY HARMED???"