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Another way to look at it: The number of legacy students has fallen almost to zero, so now Johns Hopkins announces they are getting rid of legacy students, not

• nugget 7y ago
  Yes this seems more like an attempt to capitalize on a negative trend (legacies no longer applying and matriculating) to achieve positive brand association (Hopkins is now leading the way towards a meritocratic future). I'd be curious what led to the fall in legacy students in the first place.
  • virtuous_signal 7y ago
    This totally might be the case. However it's still a good change and might lead to other colleges following suit. I'm reminded of a recent trend among the Ivies where Princeton was the first to eliminate loans from its financial aid packages[1] and instead offer only grants. Of course they have the largest endowment per student in the country, so the amount they collected from low-income students via loans was probably trivial. However it did seem to kick off a trend to the extent that all of the ivies[2] (dartmouth and cornell being more stringent) have replaced loans with grants for low-income students. [1] https://paw.princeton.edu/article/no-loan-pledge-decade-later https://paw.princeton.edu/article/no-loan-pledge-decade-late... [2] https://blog.collegevine.com/does-the-ivy-league-offer-scholarships/ https://blog.collegevine.com/does-the-ivy-league-offer-schol...