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Why We Ended Legacy Admissions at Johns Hopkins

Why We Ended Legacy Admissions at Johns Hopkins

When I became president of Johns Hopkins University 10 years ago, I found that one in eight newly admitted students benefited from preferences given to relatives of alumni. Today, it’s important that I’m able to give the same answer to Hopkins alumni that I once gave in Toronto. Legacy preferences—the admissions advantage given to family of alumni—are generally alien to Canadian (and, indeed, European) universities.