Legacy admissions for alumni children: the beginning of the end?

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#1 Submitted by graff.... on April 11, 2023 - 1:03am

This has been said every decade since at least the 1960s. Paul Basken: what specifically is different today?

Legacy admissions for alumni children: the beginning of the end?

University of Pennsylvania’s pulling of legacy aid seen as sign of embarrassment and potential harbinger of change across US elite

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US Supreme Court signals end to affirmative action as trial opens

Harvard trial spotlight shifts to alumni admissions advantages

Why do elite colleges allow alumni’s children a foot in the door?

THE Campus Live US: junking legacy admissions ‘could hurt diverse colleges’

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Legacy admissions for alumni children: the beginning of the end?

University of Pennsylvania’s pulling of legacy aid seen as sign of embarrassment and potential harbinger of change across US elite

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US Supreme Court signals end to affirmative action as trial opens

Harvard trial spotlight shifts to alumni admissions advantages

Why do elite colleges allow alumni’s children a foot in the door?

THE Campus Live US: junking legacy admissions ‘could hurt diverse colleges’

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University of Pennsylvania

Harvard University

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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