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ERIC Number: EJ507710
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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ISSN: ISSN-1077-3711
So Your Dad Went to Harvard: Now What about the Lower Board Scores of White Legacies?
Megalli, Mark
Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, n7 p71-73 Spr 1995
Many colleges, Harvard among them, offer preferential admission to the children of alumni. The legacy preferential system perpetuates elitism and the status quo and places blacks and other minorities, whose parents were less likely to have gone to college, at a real disadvantage. (SLD)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Alumni, College Admission, College Applicants, College Bound Students, College Entrance Examinations, Equal Education, Parent Background, Scores, Selective Admission, Test Results
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Harvard University MA; Preference Patterns; Scholastic Aptitude Test