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I have a question: how many students per year get legacy status benefits vs how much energy time and money have we spent trying to figure this out? Is this a
by boringg 2y ago
I have a question: how many students per year get legacy status benefits vs how much energy time and money have we spent trying to figure this out?
Is this a significant and continuous problem or is this some vanity project for a couple of politicians?
Im honestly asking is this a significant enough problem and how this solution helps solve our education system challenges?
- 627467 2y agoIt's really about jealousy and populist measures
- whimsicalism 2y agoWe really have no idea. There are lots of legacy admits at universities, but also legacy students are often pretty good candidates on their own. At my alma mater for instance, legacy students typically had better stats than the median admit. So it's hard to say how much removing legacy preference would change admissions. But at max, it is only affecting a few tens of thousands students per year.
- tedunangst 2y ago> Those reports showed that the practice was most widespread at Stanford and U.S.C., where, at both schools, about 14 percent of students who were admitted in the fall of 2022 had legacy or donor connections. At Santa Clara University, Mr. Newsom’s alma mater, 13 percent of admissions had such ties.
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