{"id":14193,"date":"2024-07-13T17:36:43","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T17:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14193"},"modified":"2024-07-13T17:36:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T17:36:44","slug":"opinion-the-sad-truth-about-elite-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=14193","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | The Sad Truth About Elite Universities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;A handful of schools, including Amherst and Johns Hopkins, had ended the practice of giving admissions to the children of alumni \u2014 so called legacy preferences \u2014 in the years before affirmative action was struck down.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestcolleges.com\/research\/legacy-admissions-bans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Seven more ended<\/a>&nbsp;the practice after the Supreme Court\u2019s decision last year, and for a minute it appeared the dominoes would fall \u2014 but then no other college followed suit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, many have doubled down on legacy preference and other mechanisms of exclusion that drive the massive wealth disparities on these campuses. And no \u201celite\u201d college has made an explicit commitment to give a leg up in the admissions process based on socioeconomic disadvantage \u2014 the most obvious mechanism for promoting diversity. For several years now, at Harvard and 37 other U.S. colleges and universities,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2017\/01\/18\/upshot\/some-colleges-have-more-students-from-the-top-1-percent-than-the-bottom-60.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more students have come&nbsp;<\/a>from the top 1 percent of the income distribution than the bottom 60 percent.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2024\/06\/25\/supreme-court-affirmative-action-ruling-elite-colleges-00164902https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2024\/06\/25\/supreme-court-affirmative-action-ruling-elite-colleges-00164902\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2024\/06\/25\/supreme-court-affirmative-action-ruling-elite-colleges-00164902https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2024\/06\/25\/supreme-court-affirmative-action-ruling-elite-colleges-00164902<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A handful of schools, including Amherst and Johns Hopkins, had ended the practice of giving admissions to the children of alumni \u2014 so called legacy preferences \u2014 in the years before affirmative action was struck down. Seven more ended the practice after the Supreme Court\u2019s decision last year, and for a minute it appeared the dominoes would fall \u2014 but then no other college followed suit.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, many have doubled down on legacy preference and other mechanisms of exclusion that drive the massive wealth disparities on these campuses. And no \u201celite\u201d college has made an explicit commitment to give a leg up in the admissions process based on socioeconomic disadvantage \u2014 the most obvious mechanism for promoting diversity. For several years now, at Harvard and 37 other U.S. colleges and universities, more students have come from the top 1 percent of the income distribution than the bottom 60 percent.&#8221;<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2024\/06\/25\/supreme-court-affirmative-action-ruling-elite-colleges-00164902https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2024\/06\/25\/supreme-court-affirmative-action-ruling-elite-colleges-00164902<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[356,1767],"class_list":["post-14193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-education","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14194,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14193\/revisions\/14194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}