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Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Why men warrant a break on college admissions


Why men warrant a break on college admissions:

"It is hard to imagine that the controversies over how colleges pick their freshmen classes — the admissions 'black boxes' that all too often seem to prefer someone else's child — could get any hotter. But they are.

Topping the list of gripes are 'legacy' admissions — the students who get an extra boost because their daddy or granddaddy graduated from that college (and kicked more than a few bucks into the college coffers)."