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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This article is guardian clickbait, there is little useful new information or critical analysis put into it.

As others have pointed out, you can be both highly academically qualified and a legacy or a child of a donor, or an athlete. Or all 4!

I was interested in the "children of harvard employees". My BIL works for Harvard and has said that basically almost no employee kids are admitted, and it does not give an admissions boost. Do well-known faculty get admittance for children written into their contracts? Are we talking high level administration (like the children of Deans)? What say you DCUM?[/quote]

Yeah, very few children of faculty and staff are admitted even though many apply. My sibling is a member of the faculty there so I have some idea.

I agree that maybe it would be a bump to be the child of a Dean or one of the 20 "University Professors" who are the top tier chaired professors across the entire university (people like Amartya Sen, Larry Summers, Cass Sunstein, Michael Porter). But how many of those people have kids applying in any given year if there are only 20 of these professors?  And most of them are old and tend to have kids who are already past college age by the time they achieve that distinction. [/quote]

And the same goes for deans. There are only 15 deans at any time and their kids tend to be past college application age. [/quote]

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