Yale President On Legacies

mini
Sun, 31 Oct 2004 12:18:03 +0000

Exactly. In other words, letting in legacies had nothing to do with student quality or student performance whatsoever. It had to do with wanting to admit legacies - period. Levin doesn’t have to make (untrue) excuses for it. I have no problems with Yale admitting legacies - if anything, I think they should admit more of them, especially rich ones, and charge them for the privilege, so they can admit larger numbers of low-income students. Yale remains the least economically diverse of all the Ivy League schools, with the highest entitlement index of all the Ivy Schools (all of them being relatively high), and the third highest in the nation.