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New York — Legacy college admission is an advantage given at birth, in which the children of a school’s alumni receive special consideration in the college admissions rat race.But after the US ...
But more than that, I hope that legacy admissions end. Students like me should not receive extra unfair advantages on top of our white privilege. Sarah Enelow-Snyder is a writer from Texas, ...
Legacy admissions, also known as legacy preferences or alumni connections, refers to a boost in a prospective student’s odds of admission to a college just because the applicant is related to an ...
Higher Education Pressure mounts on colleges to ditch ‘legacy’ admissions factor. Supreme Court ruling against race-based affirmative action has put new scrutiny on other admissions practices ...
A vast majority of college students say they believe legacy admissions into universities are unfair, according to a new survey from Generation Lab. The poll found 39 percent of young people say it ...
Using 2021-2022 admissions data from the Common Data Set — a College Board Initiative — the report found that selective and private colleges were most likely to use legacy preference in their ...
But removing legacy admissions would likely not fully offset the decrease in racial diversity caused by striking down affirmative action, Arcidiacono said in a September interview with The Crimson.
Legacy status played a “negligible role” in admissions, Michael S. Roth, Wesleyan’s president, said in an interview. But, he added, the practice was becoming a distraction and “a sign of ...
I’m a legacy student, and I am glad to be a Princetonian. But, as Rachel Kennedy wrote in 2019, our path here should not be easier than anyone else’s just because our parents attended. All of us have ...
My children could benefit from legacy admissions. But they shouldn’t. Colleges and universities have started to end the practice of giving special consideration to the children of alumni.
But there are many types of preferential admissions, from athletic to regional, and examining these cases shows us that “unfair” is not necessarily bad — preferential admissions, including legacy ...
Ending legacy admissions may be defensible in the service of equity, but it’s neither necessary nor sufficient to increase lower-income students’ access to higher education.