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...allow that student to contribute to the Harvard community. And so-called legacy applicants—that is, students with a close relative who attended Harvard—continue to receive a small boost in the admissions process. Despite its many benefits, this practice of “legacy preference?? is on its face unfair, and we hope the admissions committee disregards applicants’ legacy status when they admit the Class of 2012.Various proponents of legacy preference have offered several reasons for continuing to give legacies a boost. For example, a critical mass of legacies on campus...
...second major point of contention—the listing of the target artists in alphabetical order rather than by bid preference??some council members said they were uncomfortable with the HCC’s resulting autonomy...
...feverish pitch in the second half of the 1990s, disgruntled rejected applicants began to point fingers at competing constituencies they believed were unqualified—first minorities, and more recently legacies. It was only logical that the biggest group of students to benefit from a non-academic selection preference??athletes—have now come under fire...
...following question-and-answer session, Edley said the phrase “affirmative action” is itself a loaded term. He said conservatives use the term “race preference?? while liberals use “affirmative action,” since polling shows that the former lowers support while the latter raises...