So Your Dad Went to Harvard: Now What about the Lower Board Scores of White Legacies?.

Megalli, Mark

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ERIC Number: EJ507710

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Publication Date: 1995

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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 - Assessments and Surveys: SAT (College Admission Test)

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