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Legacy preferences, the Glossary

Legacy preference or legacy admission is a preference given by an institution or organization to certain applicants on the basis of their familial relationship to alumni of that institution.^[1]

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Affirmative action in the United States
History of education
University and college admissions

Affirmative action

Affirmative action (also sometimes called reservations, alternative access, positive discrimination or positive action in various countries' laws and policies) refers to a set of policies and practices within a government or organization seeking to benefit marginalized groups. Legacy preferences and Affirmative action are education issues and history of education.

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Affirmative action in the United States

In the United States, affirmative action consists of government-mandated, government-approved, and voluntary private programs granting special consideration to groups considered or classified as historically excluded, specifically racial minorities and women. Legacy preferences and affirmative action in the United States are discrimination in the United States.

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Alumni

Alumni (alumnus or alumna) are former students or graduates of a school, college, or university.

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American Economic Journal

The American Economic Journal is a group of four peer-reviewed academic journals published by the American Economic Association.

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American Sociological Review

The American Sociological Review is a bi-monthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of sociology.

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Amherst College

Amherst College is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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Berea College

Berea College is a private liberal arts work college in Berea, Kentucky.

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Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News (originally Bloomberg Business News) is an international news agency headquartered in New York City and a division of Bloomberg L.P. Content produced by Bloomberg News is disseminated through Bloomberg Terminals, Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets, Bloomberg.com, and Bloomberg's mobile platforms.

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Brown University

Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island.

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California Institute of Technology

The California Institute of Technology (branded as Caltech) is a private research university in Pasadena, California.

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Clarence Thomas

Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Class discrimination

Class discrimination, also known as classism, is prejudice or discrimination on the basis of social class.

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College admissions in the United States

College admissions in the United States refers to the process of applying for entrance to institutions of higher education for undergraduate study at one of the nation's colleges or universities.

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College recruiting

In college athletics in the United States, recruiting is the process in which college coaches add prospective student athletes to their roster each off-season.

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Constitution of the United States

The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States.

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Crowding out (economics)

In economics, crowding out is a phenomenon that occurs when increased government involvement in a sector of the market economy substantially affects the remainder of the market, either on the supply or demand side of the market.

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David Autor

David H. Autor (born) is an American economist, public policy scholar, and professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he also acts as co-director of the School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative.

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Derek Bok

Derek Curtis Bok (born March 22, 1930) is an American lawyer and educator, and the former president of Harvard University.

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Development case

Development cases are a set of preferences in university and college admission, particularly in college admissions in the United States, separate from merit, athletic, racial and legacy preferences, whereby applicants from wealthy families are more likely to be granted admission to selective universities based on large donations made by family. Legacy preferences and Development case are university and college admissions.

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Economics Letters

Economics Letters is a scholarly peer-reviewed journal of economics that publishes concise communications (letters) that provide a means of rapid and efficient dissemination of new results, models and methods in all fields of economic research.

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Elasticity (economics)

In economics, elasticity measures the responsiveness of one economic variable to a change in another.

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Equal Protection Clause

The Equal Protection Clause is part of the first section of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.

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Foreign Emoluments Clause

The Foreign Emoluments Clause is a provision in Article I, Section 9, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution, that prohibits the federal government from granting titles of nobility, and restricts members of the federal government from receiving gifts, emoluments, offices or titles from foreign states and monarchies without the consent of the United States Congress.

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Georgetown University

Georgetown University is a private Jesuit research university in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States.

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Grading in education

Grading in education is the process of applying standardized measurements for varying levels of achievements in a course.

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Grutter v. Bollinger

Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306 (2003), was a landmark case of the Supreme Court of the United States concerning affirmative action in student admissions.

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Harvard College

Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University, a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Initiative on Global Markets

The Initiative on Global Markets (IGM) is a research center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in the United States.

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Ivy League

The Ivy League is an American collegiate athletic conference of eight private research universities in the Northeastern United States.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University (often abbreviated as Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, Johns, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Lawrence Summers

Larry Henry Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist who served as the 71st United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001 and as director of the National Economic Council from 2009 to 2010.

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London School of Economics

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a public research university in London, England, and amember institution of the University of London.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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National Bureau of Economic Research

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is an American private nonprofit research organization "committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community." The NBER is known for proposing start and end dates for recessions in the United States.

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Nepotism

Nepotism is the act of granting an advantage, privilege, or position to relatives or friends in an occupation or field.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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Numerus clausus

Numerus clausus ("closed number" in Latin) is one of many methods used to limit the number of students who may study at a university. Legacy preferences and Numerus clausus are education issues, education policy, history of education and university and college admissions.

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Office for Civil Rights

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is a sub-agency of the U.S. Department of Education that is primarily focused on enforcing civil rights laws prohibiting schools from engaging in discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, or membership in patriotic youth organizations.

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Old boy network

An old boy network (also known as old boys' network, old boys' club) is an informal system in which wealthy men with similar social or educational background help each other in business or personal matters.

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Oligarchy

Oligarchy is a conceptual form of power structure in which power rests with a small number of people.

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Peter Arcidiacono

Peter Arcidiacono (born 1971) is an American economist and econometrician.

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Plutocracy

A plutocracy or plutarchy is a society that is ruled or controlled by people of great wealth or income.

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Pomona College

Pomona College is a private liberal arts college in Claremont, California.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Regents of the University of California

The Regents of the University of California (also referred to as the Board of Regents to distinguish the board from the corporation it governs of the same name) is the governing board of the University of California (UC), a state university system in the U.S. state of California.

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SAT

The SAT is a standardized test widely used for college admissions in the United States.

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Social Science Quarterly is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Southwestern Social Science Association.

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Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, or TAMU) is a public, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas.

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe, is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The Daily Princetonian

The Daily Princetonian, originally known as The Princetonian and nicknamed the Prince', is the independent daily student newspaper of Princeton University.

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The Economist

The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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U.S. News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report (USNWR, US NEWS) is an American media company publishing news, consumer advice, rankings, and analysis.

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University and college admission

University admission or college admission is the process through which students enter tertiary education at universities and colleges. Legacy preferences and university and college admission are university and college admissions.

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University College London

University College London (branded as UCL) is a public research university in London, England.

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University of California

The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England.

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University of Chicago Booth School of Business

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business (branded as Chicago Booth) is the graduate business school of the University of Chicago, a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.

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University of Notre Dame

The University of Notre Dame du Lac, known simply as Notre Dame (ND), is a private Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.

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University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania, commonly referenced as Penn or UPenn, is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut, United States.

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White Anglo-Saxon Protestants

In the United States, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASP) is a sociological term which is often used to describe white Protestant Americans of Northwestern European descent, who are generally part of the white dominant culture or upper-class and historically often the Mainline Protestant elite.

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William G. Bowen

William Gordon Bowen (October 6, 1933October 20, 2016) was an American academic who served as the president emeritus of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, serving as its president from 1988 to 2006.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_preferences

Also known as Legacy admission, Legacy admissions, Legacy factor, Legacy officer, Legacy preference, Legacy student.

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Legacy preferences, the Glossary

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See also

Affirmative action in the United States

History of education

University and college admissions

References