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...student body at most Ivy League schools, according to Daniel L. Golden ’78, the Pulitzer Prize-winning education reporter for the Wall Street Journal and author of “The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges??and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates...
...that bet. (And it’s an easier bet for him to make, since his room and board aren’t riding on it.) Golden claims that colleges could abolish legacy preference without taking a huge fundraising hit. He notes that “three prestigious private colleges??—Caltech, Cooper Union in New York City, and Berea College in Kentucky—“flourish without preferences for…alumni children...
Golden’s own investigation shows that legacy preference and its close cousin “development admission” (favoritism towards applicants from rich non-alumni families) contributes considerably to colleges?? coffers. For instance, in 1996, Harvard admitted an applicant named Anne Chandler Bass “in the hope of favors yet to come” from her father, a Yale-educated oil magnate. When Anne Chandler Bass graduated in 2000, her father donated $7 million to Harvard—a gift that now pays the salary of Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel...
...beds in the Houses are much more comfortable than the beds in the Yard. Don’t believe me? I’ll prove it. Tonight.” 13) “I don’t know what you hear about other colleges??promiscuity is the quickest path to popularity at Harvard.” 14) “Especially with Peer Advising Fellows, promiscuity with Peer Advising Fellows makes you popular.” 15) “Shopping Period? MORE LIKE DRINKING PERIOD! And Reading Period? MORE LIKE FREEBASING PERIOD...
...students in the bottom quarter and bottom half of the income distribution.” Students from more affluent families often apply early to express special interest in a particular school, while students from lower socioeconomic levels frequently hold off for the regular admissions process in order to compare colleges?? financial aid offers...