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Peer reviewedMegalli, Mark – Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 1995
Many colleges, Harvard among them, offer preferential admission to the children of alumni. The legacy preferential system perpetuates elitism and the status quo and places blacks and other minorities, whose parents were less likely to have gone to college, at a real disadvantage. (SLD)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Alumni, College Admission
