The admittance rate for Harvard’s class of 2025 was 3.43%, the lowest ever . . . except for “ALDCs”: athletes, “legacies” (children of Harvard alums), “dean’s interest list” (children of rich donors) and children of Harvard faculty and employees (“fac brats“). Naturally these offspring of the school’s “Old Boy’s Club” are largely White:
.”.. 43% of Harvard’s white students are either recruited athletes, legacy students, on the dean’s interest list (their parents have donated to the school) or children of faculty and staff …. The kicker? Roughly three-quarters of these applicants would have been rejected if it weren’t for having rich or Harvard-connected parents or being an athlete.”
— “Turns out, Harvard students aren’t that smart after all,” Tayo Bero, The Guardian
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