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Johns Hopkins Reinstates Standardized Testing

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The decision follows similar policy changes at Ivy League colleges. For context, the report mentions a comprehensive study showing that test-optional policies have led to short-term increases in applications but have had "no effect on other measures of quality and selectivity and no effect on diversity." legacies and 8.1%

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Georgetown Community Petitions to End Legacy Admissions for Descendants of Alums, Faculty, Staff

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The petition says the policy directly hurts campus diversity. Georgetown projected a decrease in enrollment from underrepresented groups. are petitioning to eliminate legacy admissions — university policies that favor children of alums, faculty, and staff in admissions. As of Sept. 11, there are over 700 signatures. "In

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Will Legacy Admissions End Along With Affirmative Action?

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This time, the suit involves legacy admissions , the university's policy of favoring children of alumni. For the classes of 2014-2019, Harvard legacies were admitted at a rate of 33.6% , compared to 5.9% We might soon see more universities abandon legacy preferences in the face of growing public pressure. for non-legacies.

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Dartmouth Announces Families Making Under $125K Pay Nothing, Thanks to Historic Gift

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This policy change will impact about 350 families. Dartmouth alum and former Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt, who died in 2014, and his wife, Barbara Britt, who died in August, made a bequest to the college and its Tuck School of Business of over $150 million, which will help erase expenses for students from middle-income families.

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Legacy Admissions

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Legacy admissions is a policy that grants preferences to the children of alumni. The policy has been particularly important in the Ivy League and other elite, private schools. In 2014, the percentage had dropped to only 13%. It is not a racist policy. What is legacy admissions? But it ain’t what it used to be.

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The Future of Legacy Admissions

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We know that from the period of 2014-2019, legacy applicants to Harvard enjoyed an admit rate of over 33 percent – a whopping five times greater than non-legacy applicants. ENROLL NOW WHY LEGACY PREFERENCES REMAIN IN PLACE Two reasons: admissions yield and fundraising.

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This is what Affirmative Action and Test-Optional looks like at University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Strategic Enrollment Efforts The university has implemented targeted outreach and recruitment strategies, including diversity initiatives, to attract a wider range of applicants. Only time will tell how diverse (in all ways) the university will be over the coming years in our brave new post-Affirmative Action world. 

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