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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]More evidence that athletic, legacy, donor and children of faculty and staff (ALDC) are by far the most strongly advantaged in the admissions process. http://public.econ.duke.edu/~psarcidi/legacyathlete.pdf

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I am strongly in favor of getting rid of the athletic, legacy, donor and children of faculty and staff (ALDC) preferences. I think they are awful - and I say that as someone whose children would hugely benefit from my legacy preferences. My kids will do fine even if they don't go to my elite college.

But it's more complicated than "by far the most strongly advantaged." For example, when you look at the admit rates by race and LDC status (p.66), you see that of white LDC with academic rating of 3, only 21 percent got in, but of African American non-ALDC, 40 percent were admitted. For Asian non-LDC applicants with that rating, only 6 percent were admitted. On the other hand, the admit rates for the most academically qualified African Americans were lower than for that of whites.[/quote]

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