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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
A Republican presidential candidate just called for the removal of legacy admissions last week.
The great majority of people of all political stripes are against legacy admissions. It’s mainly college administrators (not a notably Republican/conservative bunch these days) and some alumni who defend them.
https://time.com/6276372/legacy-coll...at-republican/ |
Oh weird. So 2023 was the only moment in history where these things could have been abolished, and not a single right-leaning person was involved in establishing and maintaining them? Did not know that.
Considering affirmative action began as a counter to legacy admissions, you'd think you'd want to scrap the latter before scrapping the former. But nope, can't have too many minorities taking spots from white failsons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_preferences
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In the United States, legacy admissions in universities date back to the 1920s. Elite schools used legacy admissions to maintain spots for White Anglo-Saxon Protestants amid fears that Jews, Catholics and Asians were increasingly taking spots at the schools.[8][9]
A 1992 survey found that of the top seventy-five universities in the U.S. News & World Report rankings, only one (the California Institute of Technology) had no legacy preferences at all; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology also affirmed that it does not practice legacy admissions.[10] Legacy preferences were almost ubiquitous among the one hundred top-ranked liberal arts colleges as well. The only liberal arts college in the top one hundred that explicitly said it did not use legacy preferences was Berea. Notably, in 2014, Johns Hopkins University said it was ending legacy practices, and in 2021, Amherst College also ended legacy practices.[11][12]
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