At a meeting of minority journalists in 2004, President Bush—a Yale University graduate, like his father and his grandfather—agreed that admissions “ought to be based on merit” and, when pressed, added that legacies should be abolished. Two years before, his niece Lauren had been admitted to Yale and to Princeton, where she enrolled, despite applying a month after the deadline, and with an inferior academic record.
[Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Golden claimed that the dean of admissions at that time accepted her because he was “looking to inject personalities not from the liberal élite.”]
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New Yorker, Oct. 2, 2006, p. 36
