Legacy admissions is particularly an issue at dozens of selective colleges and universities, which have become ever more difficult to gain admittance to in recent years. That’s because few colleges publish their legacy admissions numbers. In reviewing admission data from 30 top colleges in the Economics of Education Review in 2011, Michael Hurwitz concluded that children of alumni at the time had a 45 percent greater chance of admission. The conventional wisdom about legacy admissions is that it helps boost alumni giving. There is little evidence, however, that this longstanding belief about legacy admissions is actually true.

Source: Washington Post April 07, 2017 13:41 UTC