Is it Time to End Legacy Admissions?

KQED's Forum

KQED

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.2 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

“If we don’t want to live in a nepotistic society, we have to stop practicing nepotism,” Brookings Institution senior fellow Richard V. Reeves writes in a recent Atlantic piece titled, “Why the U.S. Needs to End Legacy Admissions.” Legacy admissions — when preference is given to college applicants who are related to an alum — is facing heightened scrutiny in the U.S. Some schools are abandoning the practice, and some state and federal lawmakers are seeking to curtail it. In California, a 2019 law requires four-year colleges that consider legacy status in admissions – such as Stanford and the University of Southern California – to disclose their practices. We’ll take a look at the nationwide pressures mounting against legacy admissions and hear your views. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Support for KQWED Podcasts comes from Landmark College, holding their annual Summer Institute for educators from June 24 through 26th.
0:09.1	More information at landmark.edu slash LCSI.
0:13.7	Switch to Comcast Business Mobile and save hundreds a year in your wireless bill.
0:17.8	Comcast Business, powering possibilities.
0:20.4	Restrictions apply.
0:21.1	Comcast business
0:21.6	internet required.
0:22.4	Compar's two unlimited intro lines
0:23.6	and lowest price 5D plans
0:24.6	of top three carriers.
0:25.4	Tax on fees extra,
0:26.2	reduce speeds after 30 gigabytes of usage.
0:27.8	Data thresholds may vary.
0:30.1	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Mina Kim. Coming up on forum,
0:47.3	college acceptance season is wrapping up when many students grapple with rejections
0:51.3	and heightened scrutiny is on the fairness of the college admissions process.
0:56.0	In a recent piece for the Atlantic, Richard Reeves takes aim at legacy admissions,
1:00.9	or when preference is given to an applicant who is the relative of an alum.
1:05.4	It codifies nepotism, according to Reeves.
1:08.3	But he also says there's reason to believe the practice may
1:11.1	finally be on its way out. I'm Mina Kim. Legacy preference is when college applicants get a leg up in the admissions process because they're the child or relative of an alum. It's been facing heightened scrutiny for some time now,
1:45.8	and Richard Reeves believes the practice may be nearing its end. Amherst abandoned it last year.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from KQED, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of KQED and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.