An Irony of Legacy Admission

There’s a powerful editorial today in The Harvard Crimson by a current Harvard student, Jasmine M. Green, who writes a beautiful letter to her future, imaginary child, letting him or her know why even though legacy admission has helped generations of white applicants earn admission to Harvard, she supports its … 

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Legacy Admission Must End

As loyal readers of our college admissions blog know well, we’ve been calling for an end to the practice of legacy admission for many years. In short, we believe offering preferential treatment to the progeny of a school’s alumni base is an anachronistic practice more befitting an aristocracy — not … 

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Legacies Are Rarely Denied Early Admission

If your child applied Early Decision or Early Action just a few days ago to your highly selective alma mater, don’t worry too much about your child being denied admission in mid-December. That’s right. There is a strong chance — in spite of the school’s very low admission rate — … 

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Ending the Practice of Legacy Admission

Legacy admission, the practice of offering preferential treatment in college admissions decision-making to the progeny of a school’s alumni, is a practice that we believe to be an anachronism of this still young century. In fact, from atop our soapbox in college admissions, we’ve been calling for an end to … 

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The Legacy Problem in Admissions

Legacy admission, the practice of offering preferential treatment to the progeny of alumni, is a practice we have attacked from atop our soapbox in college admissions for many years. Indeed, we have called for an end to legacy admission and we have outlined why it’s an anachronism of the twenty-first century … 

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Dismantling Legacy Admission

As a followup to a piece in “The Columbia Spectator” on legacy admission that we opined about a few weeks ago, we figured we’d share with our readers a response piece to the initial op-ed published in Columbia’s newspaper. This latest op-ed, authored by Colin Howard, is entitled “Dismantle the … 

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The Advantage of Legacies

There is an article up on “The Huffington Post” by Luke Zarzecki, Whitney Young, and Morgan DiVittorio entitled “Do Legacy Students Gets a Leg Up in College Admissions?” No need to read the article. The answer, as the loyal readers of our college admissions blog know, is yes. Duh. Is … 

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