Yet, despite these mobility boosts, socioeconomic privilege does not always materialize across generations in Black families: Only 18 percent of Black children born into the top fifth remain there as adults, compared to 41 percent of white children, and 51 percent of Black children born into the middle class fall out of it, compared to just 23 percent of white children. As such, legacy admissions for Black families specifically do not represent an opportunity to further unjust advantages but to help stabilize the gains of a community for whom formal access to predominantly white institutions of higher education is still relatively novel.