2023.06.30 12:10
Legacy Admission or Legacy Preference
Definition by Wikipedia: In the United States, legacy admissions in universities date back to the 1920s.
Elite schools used legacy admissions to maintain spots for White Anglo-Saxon Protestants amid fears
that Jews, Catholics, and Asians were increasingly taking spots at the schools.
IvyWise Resources Legacy Admissions: How Important Are Legacy College Admissions?
There are many nuances to the college admissions process, and one of the aspects that can be hard for students to navigate is whether or not applying to their parents’ alma mater will impact their chances of admission. Legacy status in college admissions can be a confusing avenue to travel, but there can be some benefits – and drawbacks – to applying to college as a legacy. While data on legacy admissions can be vague and sparse, some colleges do provide data on exactly how many legacy students apply each year and how many were offered admission and/or matriculated. According to The Hoya, Georgetown University admitted 9% of legacy applicants to the class of 2024. At Princeton University, legacy students made up 10% of the class of 2025 – that’s 150 students out of the 1,498 students who were offered admission. However, it’s important to keep in mind that a check mark next to the “legacy” box isn’t all the colleges are looking for.
What Is a Legacy Student? In college admissions, a “legacy” student is defined as someone whose parents attended and/or graduated from the institution to which the student is applying. Legacy students often receive a big boost in admissions at private universities in the U.S. However, many prestigious schools, such as MIT, do not consider legacy status at all.
What Does Legacy Status Mean? An applicant normally has legacy status at a college if a member of the applicant’s immediate family attends or attended the college, but at certain schools, it might also mean a grandparent, aunt or uncle, and cousin
What Are Legacy Admissions? Legacy admissions are a practice in which colleges give special consideration to children of alumni when deciding who to admit. They have been making plenty of headlines recently. Colleges are increasingly being called on to rethink the merits of the practice – and some colleges are beginning to heed those calls.
Why Do Colleges Care About Legacy Students? Colleges want to build well-rounded classes made up of specialists, but they also care about their yield, and therefore want to also admit qualified students who will enroll. Applying as a legacy is one way to demonstrate interest and can be a signal to colleges that, if admitted, you’re likely to attend as you already have strong emotional ties to the institution. Colleges and universities also care about alumni engagement and development, and offering admission to qualified students of alumni can help bolster alumni giving.
What Do Colleges Ask About Legacy Status? While legacy status can be a compelling piece of information, colleges really do not spend too much time asking about it. Colleges can include questions about legacy status in their supplements on the Common Application, and it’s often just two or three questions. Are you related to an alumnus? What is your relationship to that alumnus? Who is that alumnus?
How Does Legacy Status Impact My College Application Strategy? It’s important to remember that, again, while legacy status is an insightful piece of information, it’s just one part of how college applications are evaluated. Applying as a legacy won’t matter if your grades, test scores, and overall applicant profile are not up to the university’s admission standards. This is where it’s important to understand how your applicant profile stacks up against other students applying for admission, and how nuanced information, like legacy status, can better position you for admission.
If you already have strong grades and test scores, and your top-choice college is also your legacy school, applying in the early round might help your chances of admission. Not only are early admission rates often higher than regular admission rates, applying early also demonstrates interest, and identifying as a legacy can further demonstrate your commitment to attend if admitted.
Applying as a legacy can also impact your application strategy. At some institutions, legacy status is only considered if a student applies in the early round, as Cornell admissions requirements exemplify. This is another piece of the admissions puzzle to thoroughly evaluate, as the advantages of applying as a legacy can be lost if you’re not prepared to apply early in these instances.
While there are cases where applying as a legacy can boost your applicant profile, on the other hand, if your academic profile is not as strong as the middle 50% of admitted applicants, legacy status probably won’t be enough to keep you from the “no” pile. It’s important to remember that legacy status can provide additional context to your application, but it’s not enough to encourage admissions officers to look past poor grades, test scores, activities, and more.
In the end, applying as a legacy student can help bolster an overall strong application, but it isn’t sufficient to warrant admission on its own. Students should consider how their academic profile stacks up against the university’s admission standards, and how their overall application, along with other factors like legacy status, should inform their application strategy come fall.
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2023.06.30 19:32
2023.06.30 20:34
As I mentioned on the earlier website at my comment, legacy students are much more likely
to be white. Then, this is almost definitely color-based discrimination.
I know some Koreans donate huge amounts of money to Ivy League colleges
to get their children accepted by them. So, there are non-whites among the legacy students.
Anyway, the Supreme Court has not defined the Legacy as a part of the Affirmative category.
So, the legacy admissions will still continue in the foreseeable future.
I don't like it but I personally have nothing much to say about it. They may deserve it.
All colleges need money and it will go on and on.
When I was entering SNU, the children of SNU professors were allowed to enter
regardless of their academic scores. This was a kind of "corrupted" legacy admission
that was discontinued after I left Korea. I don't know when it happened.
2023.07.03 21:29
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/03/us/harvard-college-legacy-admissions-lawsuit/index.html
Three minority advocacy groups are suing Harvard University’s governing body, accusing the school of discrimination by giving preferential treatment to children of wealthy donors and alumni, and are citing the recent US Supreme Court ruling that gutted affirmative action to bolster their lawsuit.
The lawsuit, filed by the Lawyers for Civil Rights group on behalf of the Chica Project, the African Community Economic Development of New England, and the Greater Boston Latino Network, alleges the students who receive that preferential treatment are “overwhelmingly White,” and make up as much as 15% of admitted students.
“This preferential treatment has nothing to do with an applicant’s merit. Instead, it is an unfair and unearned benefit that is conferred solely based on the family that the applicant is born into,” Lawyers for Civil Rights said in a news release. “This custom, pattern, and practice is exclusionary and discriminatory. It severely disadvantages and harms applicants of color.”
*The current Supreme Court will say, "It is nothing to do with race".
https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-why-elite-colleges-cant-give-up-legacy-admissions/
To find out why elite colleges love legacies, two business school professors were granted access to 16 years of admissions data at one elite Northeastern college. The upshot: it’s in this school’s clear self-interest to take them. Alumni children who received offers matriculated at much higher rates, giving the school more certainty in their future enrollment numbers. And these loyal families with multi-generational ties to the college were far more likely to donate funds, money that the school needs, in part, to offer scholarships to others.
Even more potent was the propensity to be a big donor. A whopping 42 percent of legacy graduates were flagged as potential top donors, which could include their whole family. Only 6 percent of non-legacy graduates were flagged as potential top donors.
“Legacies make better alumni after graduation and have wealthier parents who are materially positioned to be more generous donors than non-legacy parents,” the authors wrote.
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