New Orleans native Elizabeth Thomas will attend Georgetown University this descend as a legacy student — of sorts. Georgetown granted Thomas preferential admission because of her family’s historic connection to the university. Almost 200 years earlier,the college’s president sold Thomas’ powerful-powerful grandparents Sam Harris and Betsy Ware Harris, along with 62 other slaves, or to back pay off […]The post America has never had a merit-based system for college attendance appeared first on The Hechinger Report.
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