Ending legacy admissions is where Democrats and Republicans can find common ground, write Frederick Hess and Richard D. Kahlenberg
find that attending a selective college can be a life-changing event for low-income students, catapulting them onto a different economic trajectory. Filling up seats with legacy admittees is not a victimless crime. stacking the deck for the privileged and connected. Legacy admissions allow rent-seeking college officials to sell fast-passes to good jobs and graduate school, pocketing dollars that subsidize their agenda-driven programming and bloated bureaucracies.
To add insult to injury, legacy preferences further offend both liberal and conservative sensibilities by requiring taxpayers to subsidize this corrupt system. When a wealthy alum donates money to a school in order to boost the chances of their child being admitted, they canSo, how do legacy preferences survive? In part, colleges have done a good job of propagating theBut the truth is that the survival of this anachronistic practice is a classic example of interest groups politics at work.
Civil rights groups, locked arm-in-arm with universities in a fight to defend racial affirmative action, have avoided a rift by staying silent on legacy preference policies. That will no longer be the case if the U.S. Supreme Court upends racial preferences later this year, as
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