Age 34 is still a decade or two younger than when the alumni are likely to have their legacy kids applying to college (how many Harvard frosh are parents already so that their kids are reaching college application age when the parents are 34?), so the difference could be a decade or two of income and asset increases.
Do you have a link to this by any chance?
I’m fascinated and would love to read any data.
I’ve looked at the data by Chetty and you’ve made me curious.
he was not a funder. his research has led to major donations to the hospitals but he himself has not doanted
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I think your stronger connection is to Harvard REA/SCEA. I’d do that. But let’s face it the legacy thing is mostly about money and/or fame. It’s about what you will do for Harvard.
Will you…
…continue a tradition of bringing academic accolades (and govt grant money) to the university?
…continue a tradition of sizable donations to the university?
…continue a tradition of connection to the university in some recognizable way?
…keep university in the spotlight via politics, Hollywood, being a titan of industry?
The NYT put it together in a searchable data base which also generates graphics:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobility/
This is where the Harvard data is from. From the class of 2023, they added the “prefer not to say” option, and a comparison to previous years indicates that the vast majority of those who prefer not to say come from the top 1%. The more important part, which seems to have been the purpose of adding this category, is that it serves to obscure the fact that the income of legacies is far higher than that of other students accepted to Harvard.:
https://features.thecrimson.com/2019/freshman-survey/makeup/
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