"A series of emails among top Harvard University officials illustrates the role wealth can play in the admissions process. ...
... So-called legacy preferences are common at elite colleges but have come under fire from some campus activists who say it takes seats away from low-income and first-generation students. While the practice is commonly known, it's rarely discussed as openly as in the Harvard emails revealed Wednesday.
In one chain of emails, a top fundraising official offered Fitzsimmons advice on a potential student whose family had given $8.7 million. The official said the family had been generous in the past but that more recent years were 'challenging.'
'Going forward, I don't see a significant opportunity for further major gifts,' the official wrote." ...
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2018-10-17/harvard-emails-illuminate-power-of-wealth-in-admissions
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