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Last month, the longest prison sentence yet in the 2019 college admissions
scandal was issued as John Wilson, the founder of a private equity firm, was
sentenced to 15 months for giving $1.2 million in bribes to get his three
children admitted to Harvard, Stanford and the University of Southern
California.

Wilson is but one of dozens of parents and college officials who have been
charged in the scandal code-named Operation Varsity Blues. And while that
scandal has revealed some of the more unseemly admissions “side doors” available
to wealthy and corrupt parents, the real scandal remains the broader college
admissions process itself, which was already engineered to give those with means
an unfair advantage. In this week’s Things We All Love to Hate, we explore the
distorted landscape of college admissions and how it could be improved.






WHY DO WE HATE COLLEGE ADMISSIONS?

It’s the Exams, Stupid

Families can spend thousands of dollars for students to earn competitive scores
on the SAT and Advanced Placement exams, fueling a multibillion-dollar testing
industry. The College Board, the nonprofit that administers the exams, has more
than $1 billion in cash and investments, with millions stashed in Caribbean tax
havens. Students who come from low-income families who can’t afford extensive
test prep — disproportionately Black and Latinx students — tend to perform worse
on the exams, a critical component of college admission.

The Rankings Game

For decades the U.S. News rankings of colleges and universities has dominated
the discussion of college quality in America. But 80% of the ranking is based on
information reported by the university itself, and the rankings create powerful
incentives for institutions to manipulate data and inflate their scores. A
recent investigation of Columbia University, which has surged up the rankings in
recent years, by one of its own math professors found that “key figures
supporting Columbia’s high ranking are inaccurate, dubious, or highly
misleading.”

Legacy and Athlete Preferences

Having a parent who attended a college can go a long way to increasing a
student’s odds of admission, especially at some of the most selective schools in
the country. A recent study led by a Duke economist found that legacy applicants
to Harvard, predominantly white and wealthy, were admitted at a 34% rate,
compared to 6% for non-legacy students. The advantage for student athlete
applicants, also disproportionately privileged, was even higher at Harvard, with
an average admission rate of 86%!

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HOW DID WE GET HERE?

Protecting Privilege

Elite colleges have long privileged students from wealthy white backgrounds. For
decades, men from such backgrounds were virtually the only ones considered. When
elite schools opened their doors to a broader segment of society in the early
20th century, they soon regretted it. For example, by the early 1920s, Jewish
students made up 21% of students at Harvard and almost 40% at Columbia,
prompting school officials to consider limiting Jewish admissions to preserve
the status quo.

A New System of ‘Merit’

As Malcolm Gladwell once wrote, once administrators at places like Harvard, Yale
and Princeton “realized that if a definition of merit based on academic prowess
was leading to the wrong kind of student, the solution was to change the
definition of merit.” And so the modern college admission system was born, one
which relied on standardized tests and subjective indices of “character” and
background to evaluate candidates, and provided for preferences for legacies,
donors, athletes and children of faculty.

Gaming the System

The wealthy and well-connected have enjoyed a clear leg up in such a system. Not
only can they afford to send their children to private schools, but they can
also shell out for exam preparation courses and tutors to help their kids write
college admissions essays. They can also afford for their kids to learn to play
sports (often more fringe ones like fencing and water polo) and pursue other
activities (documentary filmmaking, overseas humanitarian work) that give them
advantages in the admissions process.




FUN AND FRUSTRATING FACTS

Ivy Admissions

Admission rates at Ivy League colleges continue to get more selective. For
example, just 3.4% of applicants to Harvard were admitted in 2021 (down from
4.9%) and just 3.7% to Columbia (down from 6.1%).

Overall Rates

Other colleges are not as selective. More than two-thirds of first-time
applicants were accepted by four-year colleges in the U.S., and around 80% of
schools accepted more than half of applicants.

Loans and Financial Aid

The average student loan debt in America is around $30,000, but some 85% of
students are typically awarded financial aid of some sort.




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COULD COLLEGE ADMISSIONS BE IMPROVED?

The Test-Optional Movement

Not long ago, two liberal arts schools, Bates College and Bowdoin College, were
the only major colleges to not require SAT or ACT scores from their applicants.
Today around two-thirds of colleges and universities, including the eight Ivy
League schools, are or are expected to be test-optional or test-blind in their
admissions.

Ending Legacy Admissions

Recently, Johns Hopkins University announced that it had quietly phased out
using legacy preferences because of the advantage it provided to students from
wealthier backgrounds. As a result, the university claims that it has achieved a
much more diverse and equitable student body — with, for example, the number of
Pell Grant-eligible students rising from 9% to 19%.

Class Over Race?

With the Supreme Court preparing to hear a case that could decide the future of
race-conscious admissions policies at Harvard — and in U.S. higher education
more broadly — many are wondering whether it’s time to consider jettisoning
race-based affirmative action in favor of class-based. Despite affirmative
action policies, students from the bottom-income quartile still make up about 3%
of enrollment in the most competitive U.S. colleges, while those from the
top-income quartile make up 72%.

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THIS WILL MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER….

Lord of the Rankings

On his podcast Revisionist History, author Malcolm Gladwell dove deep into U.S.
News’ top-secret ranking formula before turning his attention to how to help a
deserving school like New Orleans’ HBCU Dillard University climb the rankings.




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