Season 3, Episode 32 (Show 136): The Legacy of the Harvard Case – Special Guest Jeffrey Brenzel

August 2, 2023

The shock waves from the affirmative action opinion continue to propagate, and former admissions Dean Jeffrey Brenzel joins us with a look at legacy and donor admissions and other policies implicated by these developments.

We return to the affirmative action case, and again former Yale Dean of Undergraduate Admissions, Jeffrey Brenzel, joins us with his peerless expertise.  The fallout of the opinion is enormous ,and we address some of its ramifications, including legacy admissions, donor admissions, private vs. public institutional options, admissions departments’ responses, and much more.  What about the new frontiers of litigation that seem to be emerging, from scholarships designed to address racial disparities to non-race-conscious policies that nevertheless have impact on racial makeup?  Former Dean Brenzel also offers a fascinating critique of the likely responses, showing how what might seem like a powerful response might actually be a foolish way to avoid real impact.