“It’s hard for most people to find a downside to ending legacy admissions,” Matt Feeney writes. “But I’ll give it a try.”
scores, those admitted as legacies already fit within the larger pool of qualified applicants. This means that, for most legacies, the benefit they receive works within the softer, holistic section of the college application. Having an alumni parent is less like magically winning several hundred SAT points and more like writing an essay that the assistant dean really admired.
Desirable schools were swamped with eager and qualified applicants from around the country; it was both an obvious bonanza and a headache. These institutions suddenly had too many fully qualified applicants who, on paper, looked too much alike. Colleges have sought to solve this problem by inventing an evolving set of moral tests and character preferences for applicants to satisfy.
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