NEW YORK — College admissions have come under scrutiny following the Supreme Court's decision to curtail affirmative action in higher education.
On Monday, several civil rights and advocacy groups including the Chica Project and Lawyers for Civil Rights filed a federal civil rights complaint against Harvard College. The complaint calls on the Department of Education to launch a federal investigation into Harvard’s practices surrounding legacy and donor preferences.
A 2019 National Bureau of Economic Research study of publicly released reports from Harvard University found that almost half of the university's white students were either related to alumni, recruited athletes or children of faculty and staff. ADLC candidates make up less than 5% of applicants to Harvard but constitute around 30% of admitted students, according to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's dissenting opinion.
"We write today to reaffirm the fundamental principle that deep and transformative teaching, learning, and research depend upon a community comprising people of many backgrounds, perspectives, and lived experiences," the university said in a statement."That principle is as true and important today as it was yesterday.
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