Harvard's freshman class is more than one-third legacy—here's why that's a problem via CNBCMakeIt
Harvard's Class of 2022 is made up of over 36% legacy students, according to The Harvard Crimson. The year before, the share of the freshman class was just over 29%.
Across the top 30 schools in the U.S., one review from 2011 discussed in the Washington Post found that children of alumni"had a 45 percent greater chance of admission" than other applicants. The concept has been controversial since its beginning. In the early 20th century, universities introduced a preference for legacies to exclude less desirable applicants, such as immigrants, and to keep their campuses homogeneous, Think Progress reports.
When seven colleges stopped accounting for legacy status during the admissions process between 1998 and 2008, there was"no short-term measurable reduction in alumni giving," Chad Coffman wrote in his book,"Affirmative Action for the Rich," as the Washington Post reports. Legacy students tend to be wealthy and white, two demographics that are already disproportionately represented at many colleges, especially the most selective ones. Yet those schools can afford to admit more lower-income students, a study from the Georgetown University Center on Education and Workforce points out.
That's heartening, given that America's current outdated system of giving preference to the relatives of former students is essentially cheating, says Richard V. Reeves, author of the book "Dream Hoarders" and a senior fellow in Economic Studies and director of the Future of the Middle Class Initiative at the Brookings Institute.
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