"… Of the top 10 universities in the world, according to U.S. News & World Report, four still take legacy status into consideration when evaluating applicants: Princeton, Columbia, Stanford and Harvard.
The six schools in the top 10 that do not take legacy status into consideration are MIT, UC Berkeley, Oxford, CalTech, Cambridge and University of Washington.
Oxford and Cambridge have long rejected the practice of legacy admissions. ‘Most people from Britain are genuinely shocked to find that elite U.S. universities reserve places for the children of the rich and well connected,’ writes British academic Nigel Thrift in the Chronicle of Higher Education." …
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/16/top-universities-that-do-not-consider-legacy-when-admitting-students.html
Yale didn’t make the top 10?
^ That ranking is purely by research prowess, which is why UW-Seattle is there but Yale isn’t.
Anyway, all the schools listed who don’t take legacy in to account are publics except for MIT and Caltech. The vast majority of elite privates take legacy in to account.
And it’s grad school oriented from a global view and voting.
Oxford and Cambridge may not consider legacy admissions, but they have their own, serious, diversity issues
https://news.sky.com/story/oxford-university-told-it-must-do-better-over-diversity-11382531
The grass is always greener.
Nor Brown, Duke or UPenn, apparently, all of which give legacy preference.
Will we see a trend in the future?
@TheJoon:
What trend?
The schools that give legacy preference have done so for a long time and so have the schools who don’t give legacy preference.
And 200 of the top 300 universities not mentioned, provide meaningful employment opportunities to grads of these 6 too.
@Gator88NE, yep, because they admit by academic prowess (England undergrad admissions is like a junior version of PhD admissions, with the profs of the department(s) you apply to deciding if you get to join).
No legacy, no athletic, no URM, no development hooks.
Which is why Niall Ferguson could count on a certain level of intellect from all his undergrads at Oxford but he couldn’t at Harvard, where, as he put it, a large portion of his undergrads wouldn’t be able to land an interview with Oxford, let alone an offer:
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/united-kingdom/2131394-oxbridge-admissions-criteria.html
Love the idea!!
Some alumni from my Alma Mata have come to expect admission for their children and treat it as a backup as they reach for top ten universities. This denies admission to students who really want to be there.
Hire players who want to play! It makes for a better team!
Sounds like Bill Belichick talk!
Some elite colleges & universities only give a legacy boost to those who apply ED.
And not all top college grads are wealthy parents.
“Top colleges” are not always “top colleges” for all students.