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What Really Happens When You End Legacy Admissions

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The morning Amherst College announced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed it was ending admission preferences for legacy students, alumni group chats lit up. As one Amherst grad characterized it at the time: “I’ve received about 40 texts from aggrieved rich white people since 8 a.m.” 

Privately, some graduates of the prestigious liberal arts college seethed at the news that their children’s applications would not be afforded special consideration by their alma mater, and predicted it would cost the school precious alumni donations. There was talk in some circles of suspending large donations, working powerful connections in the administration, and of quitting volunteer positions in protest of the change.  

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