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Affirmative Action for the 1 Percent

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The Politics of Legacy Admissions

The Biden administration is launching a civil rights investigation of Harvard's use of legacy admissions. Wesleyan University in elite college in Connecticut just announced that they're getting rid of it. Still pressure against legacy admissions really is rising. We don't know what's going to happen, but I think it's fair to say that the legacy system is more vulnerable than it has ever been before.

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