{"id":1963342,"date":"2023-07-03T14:11:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T18:11:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-07-03T14:13:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T18:13:08","slug":"harvard-legacy-admissions-targeted-in-lawsuit-after-supreme-court-bans-affirmative-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harvard-legacy-admissions-targeted-in-lawsuit-after-supreme-court-bans-affirmative-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit targets Harvard legacy admissions post-affirmative action ban."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fharvard-legacy-admissions-targeted-in-lawsuit-after-supreme-court-bans-affirmative-action%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1963342&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Lawyers File Civil Rights Complaint Against Harvard, Alleging Discrimination in Legacy Admissions<\/h2>\n<p>Lawyers for Civil Rights, on behalf of the Chica Project, the African Community Economic Development of New England, and the Greater Boston Latino Network, filed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-organization-plans-to-provide-parents-with-tools-to-combat-woke-indoctrination-in-schools\/\" title=\"New Organization Plans To Provide Parents With Tools To Combat \u2018Woke Indoctrination\u2019 In Schools\">civil rights complaint<\/a> against Harvard on Monday. The complaint claims that the college&#8217;s legacy admissions system &#8220;systematically disadvantages applicants of color.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In light of recent Supreme Court rulings against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-justice-department-drops-discrimination-lawsuit-against-yale\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Justice Department Drops Discrimination Lawsuit Against Yale\">race-based admissions processes<\/a>, activists in the Boston area submitted the complaint to the Department of Education&#8217;s Office for Civil Rights. They argue that affirmative action was initially implemented as a counter to legacy admissions.<\/p>\n<h3>Seeking Federal Investigation and Legal Declaration<\/h3>\n<p>The lawsuit calls for the Office for Civil Rights to conduct a federal investigation into legacy practices and declare them illegal. It alleges that Harvard&#8217;s special consideration of applicants with family ties to the school or those who have made donations is equivalent to racial consideration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Harvard College grants special preference in its admissions process to hundreds of mostly white students \u2014 not because of anything they have accomplished, but rather solely because of who their relatives are,&#8221; states the complaint.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit highlights that nearly 70% of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harvard-legacy-admissions-targeted-in-lawsuit-after-supreme-court-bans-affirmative-action\/\" title=\"Lawsuit targets Harvard legacy admissions post-affirmative action ban.\">applicants claiming legacy ties<\/a> are white, and those with such ties are almost six times more likely to be admitted. Similarly, applicants with donor relations are nearly seven times more likely to be admitted, with a similar number of them being white. The class of 2019 consisted of approximately 28% legacy students.<\/p>\n<h3>Challenging Privilege and Advantages<\/h3>\n<p>Ivan Espinoza-Madrigal, the executive director of Lawyers for Civil Rights, expressed his concerns about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-justice-department-scraps-investigation-into-yales-discriminatory-admissions-process\/\" title=\"Biden Justice Department Scraps Investigation Into Yale\u2019s Discriminatory Admissions Process\">college admissions process<\/a>. &#8220;There should be no way to identify who your parents are in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-student-accepted-to-nearly-50-colleges-gets-600k-in-scholarship-offers\/\" title=\"Georgia Student Accepted to Nearly 50 Colleges, Gets 0K in Scholarship Offers\">college application process<\/a>,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Why are we rewarding children for privileges and advantages accrued by prior generations? Your family\u2019s last name and the size of your bank account are not a measure of merit and should have no bearing on the college admissions process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit also cites institutions that have already eliminated legacy considerations in their applications. It references a working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research, which argues that without legacy admissions, more minority students would be accepted, and close to 25% of white students would not gain admission.<\/p>\n<h3>President Biden&#8217;s Criticism and Harvard&#8217;s Response<\/h3>\n<p>Last week, President Joe Biden criticized legacy admissions, stating that they &#8220;expand privilege instead of opportunity,&#8221; in response to the Supreme Court decision. However, Harvard remains committed to diversity-oriented admissions, despite the ruling.<\/p>\n<p>In its response to the opinion, Harvard focused on Chief Justice John Roberts&#8217;s statement that universities can still consider an applicant&#8217;s discussion of how race affected their life. The school&#8217;s response assured compliance with the Court&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard has chosen not to comment on the civil rights complaint, and Lawyers for Civil Rights did not respond to a request for comment from the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyers filed a civil rights complaint against Harvard, alleging that the college&#8217;s legacy admissions unfairly harm applicants of color. This comes after the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision to halt race-based admissions in cases involving Harvard and the University of North Carolina. Boston activists lodged the complaint with the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1963343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1963342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1963342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1963343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1963342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1963342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1963342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}