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[quote=Anonymous][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 [b]almost no employee kids are admitted, and it does not give an admissions boost.[/b] 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]

This is true.  I know several professors and high level admin at major unis, and being am employee guarantees absolutely nothing. [/quote]

It’s not. There is actual data.

321 applicants. 47% acceptance rate vs 7% for non faculty kids. If you work as a librarian it makes no difference but if you teach it does.

Every faculty and staff kid application went before the dean of admissions. 
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Not many staff have kids. Usually they leave after kids because they are over worked, underpaid, and unless they are hand picked for promotion, they are pushed out. Most staff are younger or older singles/childfree.[/quote]

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