Naomi Schaefer Riley, Columnist

Stop Bashing Harvard's Legacy Students

Most of these students don't have that much of an edge, and the university needs them.

September 8, 2017 at 4:50 PM UTC

Naomi Schaefer Riley is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior fellow at the Independent Women's Forum.

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Almost a third of Harvard University’s incoming freshman class are “legacies,” according to a new survey by the Harvard Crimson.

Cue the outrage.