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Study on Harvard finds 43 percent of white students are legacy, athletes, related to donors or staff
NBC News ^ | September 30, 2019 | Daniella Silva

Posted on 10/03/2019 12:27:50 PM PDT by Renkluaf

With the fate of Harvard’s affirmative action lawsuit in the hands of a judge, a new study stemming from that suit has raised more questions about the role of wealth, race and access in college admissions at prestigious universities.

The study, published earlier this month in the National Bureau of Economic Research, found that 43 percent of white students admitted to Harvard University were recruited athletes, legacy students, children of faculty and staff, or on the dean’s interest list — applicants whose parents or relatives have donated to Harvard.

That number drops dramatically for black, Latino and Asian American students, according to the study, with less than 16 percent each coming from those categories. The study also found that roughly 75 percent of the white students admitted from those four categories, labeled 'ALDCs' in the study, “would have been rejected if they had been treated as white non-ALDCs,” the study said.

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To: Renkluaf

That’s why they don’t want smart Asian kids. The liberal elites’ dregs want the spots.


41 posted on 10/03/2019 4:57:07 PM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: Renkluaf

One possibility is that they are discriminating against qualified whites so much that the ONLY ones who get in are in these elite categories. And with a true meritocracy, there would be more whites who are there on merit ... and more Asians, also on merit.


42 posted on 10/03/2019 6:04:31 PM PDT by tbw2
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Why shouldn’t legacies get into the schools their families helped to found or contributed to? Wasn’t that implicitly understood when those institutions were built?

How is it fair to welsh on agreements made to fore-ward thinking parents? What societal good comes from breaking such promises?

Let them have what they built. Build you’re own. You’ll meet them going down on your way up.


43 posted on 10/03/2019 10:48:26 PM PDT by tsomer
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