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A pending bill in the Massachusetts Legislature seeks to eliminate legacy admissions and earlydecision programs at all colleges in the commonwealth. More than a dozen Massachusetts legislators want to eliminate legacy admissions , donor preferences, and earlydecision programs. Co-filed by state Rep. for non-legacies.
The policy has been particularly important in the IvyLeague and other elite, private schools. Legacy admissions is all about perpetuating the American elite The thing to remember is that not so long ago, the IvyLeague schools and the other private, elite schools of the east coast really were just for the elite.
For the classes of 2014-2019, Harvard legacies were admitted at a rate of 33.6% , compared to 5.9% Amherst's decision echoed a similar move by Johns Hopkins University, which jettisoned legacy admissions in 2014. According to the complaint, almost 70% of Harvard's donor and legacy applicants are white. for non-legacies.
“The most common Columbia application mistakes I observed are students that are most excited about going to school in New York, or going to an IvyLeague school, or just going to a great school,” says Doris. But even a decade ago, Columbia had one of the lowest acceptance rates in the IvyLeague.
Dartmouth is the outdoor Ivy. The most rural member of the IvyLeague, it’s where brilliant students and outdoor enthusiasts meet — and are the same people. Most recently, 46% of the class was filled in the earlydecision cycle and the acceptance rate for that cohort was 19% , an all-time low for the university.
Indeed, a 2023 Yale Daily News article points out that the parents of today's IvyLeague applicants graduated sometime between 1980 and 2000, a span during which minority representation at those institutions rose from 15.8% Johns Hopkins University, a Maryland institution, abandoned its legacy policy in 2014. Sotomayor said.
Below is an example of a scattergram for a particular high school showing current students (and parents) at that high school how alumni from that high school fared when applying to University of Maryland College Park from 2010 through 2014. Some are on a first-name basis with IvyLeague admissions officers, some don’t know any.
In 2014, New York State Education Law 2-D barred the commercialization of such information. Penn has now become the first IvyLeague university to offer a degree in AI engineering, as Philadelphia’s Channel 6 ABC affiliate reports. Most Artificial Intelligence degrees are housed in computer science departments.
Rates are even lower among regular decision applicants vs. early action or earlydecision applicants. However, this trend isn’t limited to just IvyLeague acceptance rates or those of other private institutions. I agree that there’s more to life than attending an IvyLeague or other prestigious school.
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