A college admissions program popular among the country’s most selective universities may actually be skewed against lower-income applicants, college consultants and experts say.
Legacy college admission is an advantage given at birth, in which the children of a school’s alumni receive special consideration in the college admissions rat race. But after the US Supreme Court overturned race-based admissions over the summer, attention toward this already criticized practice intensified.
In Florida’s latest attempt to change its education system, the governing body for the state’s public universities is expected to vote Friday on whether college applicants can submit results from an alternative test to the SAT and ACT.
The US Department of Education has begun a civil rights investigation into whether Harvard University discriminates in its admissions process by giving preferential treatment to children of wealthy donors and alumni, roughly three weeks after a lawsuit made those allegations.
(CNN) — Three minority advocacy groups are suing Harvard University’s governing body, accusing the school of discrimination by giving preferential treatment to children of wealthy donors and alumni, and are