Roughly one in seven Ivy League students is a legacy, a child of alumni. Admissions data from the top thirty colleges in the nation reveal that legacies have a 45 percent greater chance of being admitted—that’s the equivalent of 160 additional SAT points. And numerous studies have shown that legacies are significantly less qualified than other students (including affirmative action applicants) on virtually every measure of academic ability. Roughly 15 percent of freshmen enrolled in America’s top universities are white students who failed to satisfy their university’s minimum requirements. Harvard admits fewer than 6 percent of all applicants but 30 percent of legacies, the average of which scored lower on standardized tests than the average nonlegacy student who was admitted. White students who benefited from legacy preferences are nearly twice as prevalent on college campuses as nonwhites who benefited from affirmative action.