petersuberExactly.
"Wesleyan Did Right on Legacy Admissions. Let’s Talk About the Ivies Now."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/07/wesleyan-legacy-admissions-affirmative-action-ivy-league-harvard-supreme-court/
Update. If #universities believe they need #legacy #admissions to keep up alumni donations, note that #JohnsHopkins phased out legacy admissions (2010-2020) and even increased alumni donations.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/johns-hopkins-has-quietly-stopped-giving-children-of-alumni-preference-in-admissions-heres-why/
(#paywalled)
Johns Hopkins Has Quietly Stopped Giving Children of Alumni Preference in Admissions. Here’s Why.
In the last decade, the university has lowered the proportion of legacy students in its freshman class from 12.5 percent to 3.5 percent. The share of students eligible for Pell Grants has gone up from 9 percent to 19 percent.
Update. #CarnegieMellon and #UPittsburgh have dropped #legacy #admissions.
https://triblive.com/news/children-relatives-of-alumni-no-longer-have-admissions-edge-at-carnegie-mellon-pitt/
Children, relatives of alumni no longer have admissions edge at Carnegie Mellon, Pitt
For decades, Carnegie Mellon University viewed whether a student applicant was related to alumni as an “important” or “considered” factor in admissions decisions. But it appears that legacies, as children or relatives of alumni are called, no longer have an edge in admissions decisions at the highly selective university. In
Update. Thank you to former #Harvard President #DerekBok for recommending that Harvard abolish legacy admissions.
https://www.ft.com/content/32c1cef2-bb07-48ce-b1a2-0d9e06281f0d
