Colleges’ true legacy: Wesleyan joins the growing club to end favored admissions for children of alumni ...Middle East

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Get out the world’s smallest violin and play it on a Broadway stage. Tony, Emmy, Grammy and Pulitzer Prize winner Lin-Manuel Miranda’s kids will have to get into Wesleyan University on their own. Ditto the children of U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, football’s Bill Belichick, “Sopranos” and “Mad Men” creator Matthew Weiner, and a host of other notables. That’s because their alma mater, Wesleyan, just ditched legacy admissions, canceling the policy that gave the kids of alumni a leg up on other applicants to the highly selective private school. (Wesleyan says in their case it’s a small one.) May every other American higher education institution follow suit.

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