Bloomberg: Harvard Legacy Admissions Targeted by Massachusetts Lawmakers
“Policies for legacies have no place in admissions that purport to advance social and economic mobility, said state Representative Simon Cataldo, who filed the bill with state Senator Pavel Payano.”
From: Bloomberg
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“Two Massachusetts legislators proposed the bill earlier this year in anticipation of the Supreme Court’s decision. It uses a formula determined by endowment value per student to determine fees based on a sliding scale. The money would go to a trust to fund community colleges.
Policies for legacies have no place in admissions that purport to advance social and economic mobility, said state Representative Simon Cataldo, who filed the bill with state Senator Pavel M. Payano. Nine other legislators have signed on.
“The schools could not simultaneously defend race-conscious affirmative action – which benefitted historically disadvantaged minorities — while also insisting on maintaining admissions policies that elevated the chances of generationally wealthy applicants above those very groups that race-conscious affirmative action was meant to help,” said Cataldo, a former teacher.
Harvard declined to comment on the bill.”
