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　　According to the book Affirmative Action for the Rich published by Century Foundation
alumni preferences provide an admissions advantage to the children of alumni。
The book have 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。
Richard D. Kahlenberg
the author of the book
said: "an alumni preference is worth 160 SAT points. And as noted above
if o 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."
The book made Princeton University as an example
in 2009
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.
The book also found that the phenomenon is not only popular in the top universities
but also in religious universities. In the well-known University of Notre Dame in Indiana
for example
about a quarter students belong to children of alumni. By contrast
at the California Institute of Technology
which has no legacy preferences
only 1.5 percent of students are the children of alumni。
Triton Burg
former president of Gee Washington University
expressed that the university assess every applicant prehensively because of the plex of admission procedure
and alumni status is not the only consideration。


　　世纪基金会出版新书《给富人的平权行动》，书中发现，大学偏好录取自己校友的孩子。
该书显示，一个校友的孩子在大学录取考试中，入学考试成绩会加160分，也就是说录取率会增加20%。
这本书的主编理查德D•卡兰伯格指出， “父母是校友能为学生的大学入学考试增加160分。也就是说，一个人根据他的成绩原来有30%的机会进入大学，如果他又是学校校友的孩子，那他现在就有50%的机会入校，即使是相同的成绩。”
这本书举普林斯顿大学为例，2009年，普林斯顿大学录取了41.7%校友的孩子，是非校友孩子的4.5倍。但在1992年，这个比例只有2.8倍。
书中发现，这种现象不仅在顶尖大学看得到，在宗教型大学也很普遍。像是印第安纳州知名的圣母大学，大约四分之一学生的父母都是校友。与此形成强烈对比的是加州理工学院，父母为校友的学生只占全部学生的1.5%。
前乔治华盛顿大学校长崔顿伯格则表示，申请入学的过程复杂，大学是综合评估每个申请人的，父母的校友身份不会是大学的唯一考量。