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Alumni preferences in many US universities
美國大學也偏好關系網
According to the book Affirmative Action for the Rich published by Century Foundation, alumni preferences provide an admissions advantage to the children of alumni.
世紀基金會出版的新書《給富人的平權行動》中發現，大學偏好錄取自己校友的孩子。
The book has 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.
該書顯示，如果是校友的孩子，那么在大學錄取入學中，他的入學考試成績會加160 分，錄取率會增加20%。
Richard D. Kahlenberg, the author of the book, said: “an alumni preference is worth 160 SAT points.
主編理查德D·卡蘭伯格指出，“如果父母是校友，那么將為學生的大學入學考試增加160分。
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.”
也就是說，一個人按照原先的成績只有30％的機會進入大學，但如果他是學校校友的孩子，那么相同的成績下，他就有50％的機會入校。”
The book made Princeton University as an example, in 2009,
書里列舉了普林斯頓大學的例子，2009年，
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.
被普林斯頓大學錄取的校友的學生人數占到41.7％，這是非校友孩子的4.5倍。但在1992年，這個比例只有2.8倍。
The book also found that the phenomenon is not only popular in the top universities, but also in religious universities.
書中還發現，并不是只有一流大學才有這種情況，宗教大學也不例外。
In the well-known University of Notre Dame in Indiana, for example, about a quarter students belong to children of alumni.
像是印第安納州知名的圣母大學，大約四分之一學生的父母都是校友。
By contrast, at the California Institute of Technology, which has no legacy preferences, only 1.5 percent of students are the children of alumni.
加州理工學院與此形成了強烈的對比，父母為校友的學生只占全部學生的1.5％。
Triton Burg, former president of George Washington University, expressed that the university assesses every applicant comprehensively because of the complex of admission procedure, and alumni status is not the only consideration.
前喬治華盛頓大學校長崔頓伯格則表示，大學申請的過程很復雜，大學會綜合評估每個申請人的資歷，而父母的校友身份并不是大學的唯一考量。
