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Owner59 -> RE: Should Affirmative Action be Applied to Athletics? (6/14/2011 7:00:19 AM)
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How about ending AA at Ivy Leage schools and top universities, where legacy children(mostly all white) get special treatment.
http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2011/01/by_peter_sacks_just_how.html
Just how much are "legacies" - students with family ties to graduates - granted an edge in admissions to the most elite institutions in the United States?
Until recently, the answer to this question, based on relatively simple analyses of acceptance rates of legacies and non-legacies, had been fairly settled. Legacies, according to the best evidence, have been treated surprisingly well in the cutthroat admissions game, in which the best and brightest are competing for increasingly scarce and valuable terrain in the American meritocracy.
In a sense, the American meritocracy has functioned as it should, producing an increasingly rich vein of highly qualified students, including both legacies and non-legacies alike. Among legacies, families hope to maintain and reproduce family privilege for the next generation and beyond. Among non-legacies, the goal is even loftier: to vault a child into a fundamentally improved social and economic class, which could vastly alter the child's future opportunities and the economic future of a family's future generations.
According to published estimates, Princeton admits 41 percent of legacy applicants compared to just 9 percent of non-legacies. Brown's accepted 35 percent of legacies compared to just a 13 percent acceptance rate for all applicants. In 2003, Harvard admitted 40 percent of legacy applicants, compared to an acceptance rate of 11 percent overall.
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