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Children of past students are favoured in admissions - now state legislators are calling for this to end.
Children of past students are favoured in admissions - now state legislators are calling for this to end.
This is why Harvard and other Ivy League schools wanted to preserve affirmative action programs. Those exist to make the school look better while like a quarter to a third of their students are legacies.
That’s the real affirmative action. If you’re the child of an alumni, you’re like 10x more likely to get in compared to a non-legacy applicant.