Harvard is a very, very selective school. Only 3.43% of applicants get in. But that's not the whole story. Writing in @TheGuardian, Tayo Bero says that 43% of the white student body was admitted on criteria other than merit.
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Those 43% are ALDCs: athletes, legacies, dean's interest list (children of major donors) or children (of Harvard faculty). Three quarters of ALDCs do not have the grades to be admitted to Harvard on their own merit. 3/
70% of Harvard legacies are white. 16% of ALDCs are Black, Asian or Hispanic.
As Bero writes, you don't need #VarsityBlues-style bribery to get your underachieving white kids into a top university. 4/
As Bero writes, you don't need #VarsityBlues-style bribery to get your underachieving white kids into a top university. 4/
There's a huge affirmative action program in place to get those ALDCs into super-competitive schools, rather than better-qualified brown and poor kids. 5/
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