Children of past students are favoured in admissions - now state legislators are calling for this to end.

    • @KevonLooney@lemm.ee
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      366 months ago

      This is why Harvard and other Ivy League schools wanted to preserve affirmative action programs. Those exist to make the school look better while like a quarter to a third of their students are legacies.

      That’s the real affirmative action. If you’re the child of an alumni, you’re like 10x more likely to get in compared to a non-legacy applicant.

  • @Dra@lemmy.zip
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    626 months ago

    Amazing that an institution so outwardly obsessed with meritocracy has such an aversion to it in reality.

    • Bakkoda
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      36 months ago

      It’s a 1000 times easier to say it and not do it. And that’s basically where we’re at in the world of organizational integrity across the world.

  • Drusas
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    346 months ago

    "But how will we survive when our entire business model is built on nepotism?’

    • @Fermion
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      106 months ago

      Their $50.7 billion endowment fund that distributed $2.2 billion this year will probably help them survive.