Children of Alumni Are Uniquely Harmed by Admissions Preferences, Study Finds

Autor/in	Schmidt, Peter
Titel	Children of Alumni Are Uniquely Harmed by Admissions Preferences, Study Finds
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 53 (2007) 31, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Alumni; Admission Criteria; College Students; College Admission; Academic Achievement; Grade Point Average; Minority Groups; Athletes; Affirmative Action; Dropouts; Selective Admission; Educational Research + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Admission; Admission procedures; Zulassungsbedingung; Zulassungsverfahren; Zulassung; Collegestudent; Hochschulzugang; Hochschulzulassung; Schulleistung; Ethnische Minderheit; Athlet; Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; Bildungsselektion; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung
Abstract	This article reports the findings of a new study conducted by the two researchers at Princeton University, Douglas S. Massey and Margarita Mooney. The study was based on data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen, which covers about 3,900 students who entered 28 public and private selective colleges in the fall of 1999. The study found that the children of alumni--commonly known as "legacies"--are far more likely than minority students or athletes to run into academic trouble in college if admissions preferences got them through the door. The further a selective college lowers the bar for a given legacy applicant--as measured by the gap between that applicant's grade-point average and the mean for that institution--the lower the grade-point average the student is likely to earn, according to a paper written by the researchers. What's more, those selective colleges that are the most committed to admitting the children of alumni have the highest dropout rates among such students. (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10