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Students walk on the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles. California is banning legacy admissions at private colleges and universities, ensuring that some of the country’s ...
September 30, 2024 at 11:36 AM. A view of Mudd Hall at USC on March 28, 2023. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) A new law banning legacy and donor admissions at private California universities ...
September 30, 2024 at 2:28 PM. California’s Democratic governor approved a new state law on Monday that bars private, nonprofit colleges from using legacy or donor preferences in the admissions ...
Legacy preferences. Legacy preference or legacy admission is a preference given by an institution or organization to certain applicants on the basis of their familial relationship to alumni of that institution. It is most controversial in college admissions, [3] where students so admitted are referred to as legacies or legacy students.
On Monday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a ban on legacy and donor preferences in admissions at private universities in the state, including Stanford and the University of Southern ...
Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, 600 U.S. 181 (2023), is a landmark decision [1][2][3][4] of the Supreme Court of the United States in which the court held that race-based affirmative action programs in college admissions processes (excepting military academies) violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. [5]
Newsom signed the legislation on Monday; legacy admissions (and any special consideration for well-connected applicants) will be abolished starting fall 2025. Every private college and university ...
US admissions tests were designed to fit a White Protestant elite education with questions on Classical subjects as well as Greek and Latin which were not taught in schools in which the Jews and other immigrants learned. [1] Yale, Dartmouth and other universities introduced legacy admissions that favored the Protestant elite. [1]