43% of white Harvard students are legacy, athlete, or donor/staff related (2019)
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#2I'm sure Edward Blum will turn his focus on this issue next
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#4Is Harvard not allowed to admit the students they want? It’s the same situation in my local prestige college… very disproportionately slanted towards local kids that have been attending summer programs and the children of staff and faculty. So what?
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#7So I guess non-legacy white applicants were at an even greater disadvantage for their skin color then we might have assumed.
Want to git rid of legacy preference? Great.
Let’s be honest, though — this is just whataboutism.
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#9Is Harvard not allowed to admit the students they want? It’s the same situation in my local prestige college… very disproportionately slanted towards local kids that have been attending summer programs and the children of staff and faculty. So what?
Harvard can admit who they want, but people can also complain about it
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#10> The study also found that roughly 75 percent of the white students admitted from those four categories, labeled 'ALDCs' in the study, “would have been rejected if they had been treated as white non-ALDCs,” the study said.