U.S. Uniquely Keeps Legacy Admissions

Citing Richard Reeves, the piece repeats the claim that the United States is (now) the only country where legacy preference still factors into college admissions. That fact is checkable and, if true, sharpens debates over higher‑education inequality and whether elite institutions reproduce inherited privilege by design rather than accident. — If legacy preference is uniquely American, it is a concrete policy lever for reducing inequality and reshaping elite recruitment — a targeted reform point for education and political debate.