New challenges take aim at the decades-old practice of giving preference to legacy applicants in college admissions.
against Harvard, Lawyers for Civil Rights said it was challenging the "discriminatory practice of giving preferential treatment in the admissions process to applicants with familial ties to wealthy donors and alumni.""This preferential treatment overwhelmingly goes to white applicants and harms efforts to diversify color," added Michael Kippins, litigation fellow at Lawyers for Civil Rights.
"That signifies a huge stride toward future insurance that every student, regardless of their race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion, or socioeconomic status, has an equal opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive at a higher education institution," Ivory Toldson, the association's director of education innovation and research, said in a statement.
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