138: Decisions, Decisions
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The Impact of Legacy Admissions on Admissions
The plaintiffs are asking the Department of Education to open an investigation into Harvard's use of legacy admissions. They say that when you consider both donors and legacy admissions together, for some students, it actually boosts the admission rate to up to 42%. If your family went to Harvard before and they gave money, which is crazy, like you take it from 3% to 43,. And the huge, huge predominance of those students are white.
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