Ivy League schools ‘should use endowments to increase admissions’

President Thomas S. Gates of the University of Pennsylvania, receiving the key to the 160-acre estate to illustrate Are legacy places being retired?

Legacy admissions for alumni children: the beginning of the end?

University of Pennsylvania’s pulling of legacy aid seen as sign of embarrassment and potential harbinger of change across US elite

By Paul Basken

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US Supreme Court signals end to affirmative action as trial opens

Ahead of ruling on Harvard and North Carolina cases, conservative majority on nation’s top court makes clear it leans towards ending predecessors’ 2003 approval of racial preferences in college admissions

By Paul Basken

1 November

Andrew E. Lelling giving a press conference as this story is about him.

Donor favours muddled ‘Varsity Blues’ probe, prosecutor admits

Standard university solicitations raised some concern in arresting parents over admissions bribes

By Paul Basken

29 September

Affirmative action advocates given hope despite looming ban

With nation’s top judicial body expected to outlaw efforts to consider race in admissions, student essays held out as alternative means of preserving equity

By Paul Basken

24 April

Ivy League schools ‘should use endowments to increase admissions’

Elite universities could be doing far more to help disadvantaged students, regardless of what the Supreme Court decides on affirmative action, say makers of Exclusion U documentary

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Ivy League schools ‘should use endowments to increase admissions’

Elite universities could be doing far more to help disadvantaged students, regardless of what the Supreme Court decides on affirmative action, say makers of Exclusion U documentary

Register to continue

Subscribe

Related articles

Legacy admissions for alumni children: the beginning of the end?

US Supreme Court signals end to affirmative action as trial opens

Donor favours muddled ‘Varsity Blues’ probe, prosecutor admits

Affirmative action advocates given hope despite looming ban

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Harvard University

Columbia University

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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