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Currently, the Ivy League institutions are estimated to admit 10% to 15% of each entering class using legacy admissions. [21] For example, in the 2008 entering undergraduate class, the University of Pennsylvania admitted 41.7% of legacies who applied during the early decision admissions round and 33.9% of legacies who applied during the regular admissions cycle, versus 29.3% of all students ...
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 Supreme ...
More than half of the top 250 U.S. colleges and universities offer legacy admissions. Paul Marotta / Getty ImagesLegacy admissions – a practice in which colleges give special consideration to ...
The headlines about college legacy admissions policies have been coming fast and furious in recent weeks—a not unexpected byproduct of the Supreme Court ruling that race-conscious admissions ...
The case against legacy admissions is that it flies against the notion that the college application process is about merit, and instead, offers advantages to the children of alumni. Giving a boost ...
Admissions officers at those schools will no longer be able to consider whether a student’s parents attended or donated money to a university as a factor that could sway their decisions.
Wesleyan president Michael S. Roth explains the university’s recent decision to end legacy admissions and argues for a renewed commitment to equity and access in higher education after the ...
According to Education Reform Now, a think tank focused on education policy, legacy admits make up roughly 10% to 25% of admissions at top universities. A recent survey by Generation Lab found ...