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43% of white Harvard students are legacy, athlete, or donor/staff related (2019)
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#12Is 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?
Universities like Harvard typically like to market themselves as being the height of meritocracy, going so far as to proudly declare their miniscule acceptance rates. It's hard to square that with a very obvious preference for students from a specific background regardless of merit.
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#15Is 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?
They are allowed to, but I think it's great to get this news out there. The prestige of Harvard mostly comes from the selectivity, but understanding what traits they are selecting for may change the perceived value of such a degree (i.e. is this because you know somebody who works there, or because you are in the top .01% of academics)
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Liberalism is just the ideology of capitalism. US conservatives and “liberals” are both liberals in the philosophical sense, with mostly cultural differences.
It shouldn’t be a surprise both factions seek their material interests.
Re: 43% of white Harvard students are legacy, athlete, or donor/staff related (2019)
#17> 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.
And 100% of affirmative action students would have been rejected otherwise. So this cohort is doing a little better by that standard.
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#18> 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.
What’s ALDC? The article didn’t specify.
Re: 43% of white Harvard students are legacy, athlete, or donor/staff related (2019)
#19This news is from 2019. Here is the published paper: http://public.econ.duke.edu/~psarcidi/legacyathlete.pdf
Re: 43% of white Harvard students are legacy, athlete, or donor/staff related (2019)
#20Is 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?
Not when they receive federal money and special statutes and privileges.