美國大學也好關係網 偏好錄取校友子女
According to the book Affirmative Action for the Rich published by Century Foundation, alumni preferences provide an admissions advantage to the children of alumni。
The book have shown that being the child of an alumnus adds the equivalent of 160 SAT points to one's application and increases one's chances of admission by almost 20 percentage points。
Richard D. Kahlenberg, the author of the book, said: "an alumni preference is worth 160 SAT points. And as noted above, if two students score exactly the same on the SAT, the one without alumni parents might have a 30 percent chance of getting in, but the student with a legacy, and the same scores, has a 50 percent chance of getting in."
The book made Princeton University as an example, in 2009, the percentage of the alumni children enrolled in the university was 41.7 , 4.5 times the non-alumni counterpart. However, the ratio was only 2.8 times in 1992.
The book also found that the phenomenon is not only popular in the top universities, but also in religious universities. In the well-known University of Notre Dame in Indiana, for example, about a quarter students belong to children of alumni. By contrast, at the California Institute of Technology, which has no legacy preferences, only 1.5 percent of students are the children of alumni。
Triton Burg, former president of George Washington University, expressed that the university assess every applicant comprehensively because of the complex of admission procedure, and alumni status is not the only consideration。
世紀基金會出版新書《給富人的平權行動》，書中發現，大學偏好錄取自己校友的孩子。
該書顯示，一個校友的孩子在大學錄取考試中，入學考試成績會加160分，也就是說錄取率會增加20%。
這本書的主編理查德D•卡蘭伯格指出， “父母是校友能爲學生的大學入學考試增加160分。也就是說，一個人根據他的成績原來有30%的機會進入大學，如果他又是學校校友的孩子，那他現在就有50%的機會入校，即使是相同的成績。”
這本書舉普林斯頓大學爲例，2009年，普林斯頓大學錄取了41.7%校友的孩子，是非校友孩子的4.5倍。但在1992年，這個比例只有2.8倍。
書中發現，這種現象不僅在頂尖大學看得到，在宗教型大學也很普遍。像是印第安納州知名的聖母大學，大約四分之一學生的父母都是校友。與此形成強烈對比的是加州理工學院，父母爲校友的學生只佔全部學生的1.5%。
前喬治華盛頓大學校長崔頓伯格則表示，申請入學的過程複雜，大學是綜合評估每個申請人的，父母的校友身份不會是大學的唯一考量。
