Do You Want Your Children To Go to Harvard?
- sofiapbaker
- Jan 29, 2024
- 1 min read
If you are a Harvard undergraduate, the question in my title might not be top of mind. In the early Anthropocene, when I was in college, many people went to university with the idea that they might find somebody to marry. Back then, where your future children might go to college was something engaged college couples would discuss.
If by some remote chance this thought has crossed your mind too, congratulations! Your children will be legacies. It may come as a surprise that the issue of legacy admissions could eventually impinge on you. Despite an overwhelming tendency for undergraduates to oppose preferential admissions for legacies, it seems that few have given the issue much consideration…