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Explore "legacy admissions" with insightful episodes like "Wesleyan's President on Admissions Post-Affirmative Action", "Affirmative Action — For The Rich" and "Affirmative Action for the 1 Percent" from podcasts like ""The Journal.", "Consider This from NPR" and "The Daily"" and more!
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Affirmative Action — For The Rich
For decades, many elite, private institutions have given prospective college students preference if a relative attended the school or, in some cases, when a major donor was involved.
While the practice of affirmative action is dead, legacy admissions continue. But more and more critics of the practice are calling on schools to do away with them, including President Biden.
Host Juana Summers speaks with economist John Friedman, a professor and chair of economics at Brown University. He co-authored a study that quantifies the lasting socio-economic disparities between legacy students and their less affluent peers.
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Affirmative Action for the 1 Percent
A major new study has revealed just how much elite colleges admissions in the U.S. systematically favor the rich and the superrich.
David Leonhardt, a senior writer for The Times and The Morning, walks through the data and explains why the study is fueling calls to abandon longstanding practices like legacy admissions.
Guest: David Leonhardt, a senior writer for The New York Times and The Morning.
Background reading:
- From the Upshot: A study of elite college admissions data suggests being very rich is its own qualification.
- Here’s David Leonhardt’s article for The Morning discussing the results of the study.
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