US probe opened over Harvard’s ‘legacy’ admissions policy

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Note the similarity to Singapore's policy on admission to top primary schools where children whose parents are alumni of that school are given automatic/priority admission....

Harvard University’s policy of giving family members of former students and donors preference in admissions decisions, documents showed on Tuesday.

Supreme Court decision banned the use of race in college application decisions.

nearly 70 per cent of Harvard applicants with family connections or links to donors are white.

Harvard and UNC, like a number of other competitive US schools, considered an applicant’s race or ethnicity as a factor to ensure a diverse student body and representation of minorities. Such affirmative action policies arose from the civil rights movement in the 1960s, aiming to help address the legacy of discrimination against African Americans.

For qns on equality and discrimination....