A new study finds that three-quarters of white students accepted by Harvard as legacies or athletes would not have gotten in otherwise
Harvard. Photo: Brooks Kraft/Getty Images Earlier this year, dozens of wealthy parents were accused of taking part in what the FBI dubbed “Operation Varsity Blues” — a nationwide scam to secure their children admission to elite universities, in which they allegedly paid tens of thousands of dollars to have SAT scores falsified or to get their children fraudulently recruited for sports they didn’t actually play. The scandal sparked widespread outrage.
According to the paper, “Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard,” 43 percent of the Caucasian students accepted at the university between 2009 and 2014 were athletes; legacies; or the children of faculty, staff, and donors . Of these students, researchers found that three-quarters of them would not have been admitted to Harvard had they been treated as white non-ALDCs.
Of the African-American, Asian-American, and Hispanic students admitted to Harvard during this time, fewer than 16 percent of each group were ALDCs. The report concludes that each of the ALDC categories — athletes, legacies, and children of staff or donors — primarily benefit white students. Removing athlete and legacy preferences would make incoming classes slightly less white and significantly more economically diverse.
As Slate notes, however, instead of moving away from the current admissions process, Harvard seems to be doubling down on the preference it gives ALDCs. Another paper by one of the study’s authors found that, “over the course of the 18 years, legacies and athletes moved from being four times more likely to be admitted as their non-legacy, non-athlete counterparts to nine times more likely to be admitted.
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