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 alumnus. For decades, somecollegeshave given students who are related to alumni preferential trea...
Legacy admissions have come under heightened scrutiny following the Supreme Court'sdecision to limit race-based affirmative action programsfor colleges and universities in June 2023. California law had banned affirmative action in 1996. "In light of this shift, proponents of AB 1780 advocated f...
I think not. The harms are of two kinds. First, legacy admissions undermine the matching of the best students with the best colleges. That kind of “assortative mating” is probably most efficient from the standpoint of maximizing the gains from education; and education creates benefits for soci...
At the same time, schools also often use policies that benefit more affluent students, from legacy admissions to recruiting out-of-state students who pay non-resident tuition, according to a report from EMRA Research. Ultimately, admissions officers work for the university and "ar...
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In an interview with CBS Bay Area, Ting said the bill aims to provide equity around an unfair "backdoor." "I think the irony with legacy admissions is legacy admissions help the families who absolutely need the least amount of help in this country. They are at the...
Admissions preferencesIn this paper, I examine the impact of legacy status on admissions decisions at 30 highly selective colleges and universities. Unlike other quantitative studies addressing this topic, I use conditional logistic regression with fixed effects for colleges to draw conclusions about the...
Legacy admissions — the practice of offering priority admittance to students whose families attended the university previously — would continue to give a leg up to certain applicants (who tend to be whiter and wealthier), even though racial minorities had just been denied the opportunity to get ...
On June 29, the U.S. Supreme Court ended race-conscious admissions practices in higher education, which began in the late 1960s in an effort to diversify student populations. In the wake of this decision, Wesleyan University has chosen to do away with legacy admissions practices. ...
The College Board has reported, with some concern, that tuition costs have gone up at public universities for 8 straight years, but financial aid hasn’t kept up. At private universities, and the highest-ranked public flagships, tuition has gone up way faster than inflation –more than ...