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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sigh.
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Take a typical college campus: If you take away spots in the freshman class reserved for athletes, development cases, legacies, special cases, you’ve probably taken away a third of your spots,” said Mark Sklarow, chief executive officer of the Independent Educational Consultants Association. “It is, unfortunately, one of the facts of college admission. Colleges try to create a freshman class beyond just the academic numbers.”[/quote][/quote]

Why did he leave out all of the spots reserved for URMs.....and the relaxed admission standards that accompany those spots?[/quote]

It is all going to go, which is going to affect legacy admits and athletes the most. From the Economist this weekend:

[i]..."But the likeliest impetus for change is the affirmative-action trial. 'At present the universities can say they take into account lots of factors, including legacies,” says Mr Kahlenberg. “If you no longer have them for minorities then it becomes harder to justify.” That, indeed, is what happened at the University of California and at Texas a&m: when racial preferences were ended, legacy preferences looked even more egregiously unfair, and were binned."[/i]

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2019/03/23/why-legacy-places-should-be-abolished (must register to read up to 5 free articles)[/quote]

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