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Family Connections: Legacy Admissions Under Fire

Apparently when it comes to elite colleges in this country, “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.”

… and who your parents are.

A new study of admissions at thirty selective colleges and universities has found that legacy applicants, students with relatives that attended the school, have a big advantage over students without family ties. The study also found that students whose parents earned an undergraduate degree at the college have far more benefit than those with ot…