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It's no secret that racial preferences were a cover for legacy admissions.



I legitimately don't buy that. Legacy seems like really a mechanism for nepotism and reinforcing elite networks. While due to their origin they probably have racial skews, but I really don't buy that is their driving force. After all, legacy are such a small percentage overall they can't sway the overall campus demographics much.

Not saying they should or shouldn't be dismantled, just bothers me to see likely misattributed motivations.


At Harvard, legacy admissions was about a third total of all admissions each year.


Okay, that’s interesting. I didn’t look for Harvard, but the numbers I found before posting was 14% in general.




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