A Stanford Law School professor, Ralph Richard Banks, recently penned an op-ed in The Los Angeles Times that has since come under fire. In his piece, entitled “Donating money to help your child get into college isn’t wrong,” Banks argues, “Universities should not be relieved of their obligation to enhance …
In a story that is surprising to not a single person with a pulse, a New York hedge fund billionaire, David E. Shaw, is making headlines today for donating over $37 million to several elite universities over the last few years — including Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Columbia, and …
Over the years, we have called many times for an end to the practice of legacy admission, the practice of offering preferential treatment in admissions to the children and grandchildren of a school’s alumni base. But in that same breath, we have also asserted that offering preferential treatment to the …
