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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Search for Thomas Espenshade's paper. He did the analysis your describing and talked about how much a legacy adds to admissions value. He also argued IIRC that although legacy applicants have an admissions advantage in a one-on-one comparison to another hypothetical applicant, there are relatively few legacy applicants compared to the massive pool of non-legacies, so their actual impact is relatively small. [/quote]

Read Goldin's book, Price of Admission. He talks about legacies and how they reduce the chances for all the other equally qualified applicants.[/quote]

Also how legacies tend to come from privileged families, so this is just perpetuating privilege. It's been called "affirmative action for the rich."[/quote]

It's a good moniker, but it is tongue-in-cheek. Affirmative actions are actions needed for implicitly or explicitly underserved classes of people. Nothing about the rich and privileged children of legacy donors that suggests they need "affirmative action". So even if SCOTUS comes down on "affirmative action", colleges giving preferential treatment to legacy children can continue their behavior. They would probably become less vocal about saying they were give admission purely on legacy and this will not be so hard given that in many cases legacy children are in fact good candidates.[/quote]

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