Photo: Andrew Sullivan/The New York Times Elite Colleges’ Quiet Fight to Favor Alumni Children Stephanie Saul, The New York Times Despite efforts waged by students, lawmakers, and education reformers to end the century-old tradition of legacy admissions, very little has made a dent in the preference.
The practice of legacy admissions, however, may soon face its greatest test yet—and in a twist, its future could be tied to the future of affirmative action. |