Nearly 600 colleges consider an applicant’s legacy status during their admissions process, according to data released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Education.
That’s almost a third of the more than 1,900 federally funded colleges that reported whether or not they gave preference to legacies, or the children or relatives of alumni, in the 2022-23 academic year — the first time institutions were asked to provide data on the practice. Colleges with open-admissions policies were not included in the data.
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