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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Legacy status generally only applies to a small percentage of highly-affluent people: the Bushes, the Trumps, etc. The overwhelming majority of whites and asians either have parents without degrees, or are attending different schools than their parents did, or are attending schools where legacy status is irrelevant.[/quote] The Harvard statistic is directly from their website. [b]30% of Harvard admits are legacies[/b]. Now, you can argue those are all Trumps and Bushes, but they're not and that doesn't even take into consideration folks like the PP whose parents attended a different Ivy. Again, according to Harvard's own statistics, about 15% of its students are first generation college graduates and most of THOSE are Black/Latino. So, no. You're wrong, at least about Harvard. [/quote] This is untrue. Legacy admit rate is about 30% but they make up 12-13% of the class. [/quote]
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