Wesleyan University says it will no longer consider applicants’ family ties in its admissions process. “Legacy” preference has been criticized as an unfair benefit that supports the wealthy and White, rather than the less privileged or applicants of color.
to bar schools that receive federal aid from giving children of alumni preferential treatment in admissions.in defense of legacy preferences.
It’s unclear how many students benefited from familial ties at Wesleyan, or at other universities. Wesleyan boasted a 15.7 percent admission rate in 2023, and 4 percent of those admitted for the Class of 2027 had a Wesleyan-educated parent, the collegeRoth, the school’s president, said Wednesday that legacy status has played a “negligible” role in admissions for many years.
“It’s important to underscore that Wesleyan has never fixated on a checked box indicating a student’s racial identification or family affiliations. We have long taken an individualized, holistic view of an applicant’s lived experience — as seen through the college essay, high school record, letters of recommendation, and interactions with our community,” Roth said.
Wesleyan’s decision adds to the growing number of higher education institutions across the United States dropping legacy admissions. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the California Institute of Technology, Amherst College, Pomona College, Johns Hopkins University and Carnegie Mellon University have all ceased legacy preferential treatment,
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