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Wait, this wasn’t known? I thought this was standard practice for all prestigious schools.
This shit happens in hospitals, too.
I think it depends on the school. Monty Python were all Cambridge boys and mocked Oxford for the exact same thing, Oxford has a huge reputation for nepotism.
Not sure outside the US. Also, even in the US I only heard Stanford doing this openly iirc and if I think about it.
In the US, Legacy admissions are common at any school selective enough to have admissions.
And all the conservatives scream and yell about affirmative action
This is another case of “is anyone surprised”? Next up you’ll tell me Yale does the same thing
I’m shocked. Shocked I tell you!
Actually, not that shocked.
A bit shocked that anyone is surprised by that.
Bears under fire for shitting in the woods
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Only the United States has this problem… yeah…
Yes, but how is this different than always?
The admission of legacy students is estimated to be around 10 to 15 percent.
A lot more info to start with: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_preferences#:~:text=University in 2023.-,Current practices,entering class using legacy admissions.
It’s more than that at Harvard. ALDC is legacy admissions.
While only 5% of applications come from ALDC students, they make up about a third of acceptances.
That means a legacy applicant is at least 6x more likely to be admitted than a non-legacy.
On a larger scale, I think this points out the flaws in using a school’s “reputation” to evaluate how qualified a given graduate may be. If employers and the general public no longer gave the Ivies the consideration they often get, then where someone goes to school would not matter in the end. But even with standardized testing, and other performance metrics, employers (and others such as graduate schools) always factor in an applicants’ schools’ “reputation” when considering the applicant. Even though time and time again, it’s been shown that the school does not make a difference, it is the individual. The primary way in which the school influences a person’s success is in the implicit bias everyone has about their perceived reputations.