April 6, 2007
Children of Alumni Are Uniquely Harmed by Admissions Preferences, Study Finds
A new study by researchers at Princeton University has found that the children of alumni — commonly known as "legacies" — are far more likely than minority students or athletes to run into academic trouble in college if admissions preferences got them through the door.
The further a selective college lowers the bar for a given legacy applicant — as measured by the gap between that applicant's grade-point average and the mean for that
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