Word: legacyism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
"It does not surprise me at all that the gifted, driven graduates of Harvard University raise very gifted, driven children," says one male undergraduate legacy in an e-mail.
According to Director of Admissions Marlyn M. Lewis '70, the official policy regarding legacies--applicants who are the children of Harvard-Radcliffe alums--is that if all else is equal between two candidates, preference will be given to the legacy.
A Legacy of Legacies
"With few exceptions everyone who was accepted is extraordinarily gifted in some capacity," says a male undergraduate legacy who wished to remain anonymous.
Onward: From the career front, KELLIE PETROVA writes that after 22 years of preparing audits for Peat Marwick, she made the jump to Bits 'n' Bobs, a Palm Beach gift shop, where she hand-paints unicorns and rainbows on baby pillows--"finally, something right-brained," as she puts it. Harebrained...