Yale President On Legacies

voronwe
Sun, 31 Oct 2004 11:56:52 +0000

Mini, I am on your side, but I didn’t quote the entire article. He specifically referred to diversity only in terms of “women, minority, and international students” and said they are seeing “more legacy applicants from religious groups that were historically excluded and racial groups that were historically underrepresented.” He didn’t mention income.

It takes at least 2-3 decades, of course, for more open admittance policies to have an effect on legacy applicants.

And in his defense (only because I am the one quoting the article so I don’t want to misrepresent him) I will say that he specifically said it was no surprise that so many top applicants come from alumni families because “they tend to be more exposed to and more serious about intellectual matters.” This echoes what you pointed out.