The academic performance of legacies *
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The mounting evidence of the returns to college quality has focused attention on the admissions practice of preferential treatment of legacies. This paper finds that legacies are slightly less likely to receive top grades, although the magnitude of these effects are quite small. 2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.
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تاریخ انتشار 2000