The Supreme Court decision killing college affirmative action and new research on Ivy League admission have heightened questions about the fairness of “legacy” preferences.
A Forbes analysis of the highest ranked 100 colleges on our America’s Top Colleges list for 2022 shows 78% of the private colleges give at least some consideration to legacy in admissions, compared with only 15% of top public colleges. Our analysis, based on information from what’s known as the Common Data Set, doesn’t show how each individual college defined legacy or what impact that consideration actually had on who ultimately got admitted.
Top state schools certainly provide a fine education. But the new study, a product of Opportunity Insights, a Chetty-led institute that attempts to analyze big data sets in novel ways to understand economic mobility, points out that leadership positions in the United States are held disproportionately by graduates of the most elite private schools. Less than 1% of Americans have attended Ivy-Plus schools, but their graduates, the researchers say, account for 15% of the top 0.
The richest students do better when it comes to the Ivy-Plus schools in part because they go to fancyplay expensive sports that make them desirable to college coaches. But legacy preference is the biggest contributor to the overrepresentation of students from wealthy families at Ivy-Plus schools. “Legacy admissions has come to stand out like a sore thumb in debates about equity, inclusion and access,” says Mitchell Stevens, a professor of education and sociology at Stanford.
from the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association, state and local support for four-year public colleges amounted to $11,464Without state funding, private universities are more reliant on tuition and private donations and investment income from their endowments—which represent past donor gifts, compounded by investment returns. “We’ve opted for colleges and universities that are substantially independent from government sources of revenue,” Stevens says.
While many less elite private schools are open in their preference for students who can afford to pay full tuition, all the Ivy-Plus schools claim to be “need blind” in their admissions, at least when it comes to U.S. freshmen. Being need-blind means schools don’t consider an applicant’s ability to pay as a determining factor in whether they are admitted.
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