Harvard University faces lawsuit over alleged preference for white students
NEW YORK (AA) – Advocacy groups have filed a lawsuit against Harvard University for allegedly favoring white students.
The lawsuit alleges that the prestigious college gives preferential treatment to applicants with wealthy donors and alumni connections.
The civil rights advocates filed the lawsuit on behalf of several advocacy groups, stating that nearly 70% of Harvard’s applicants with donor and alumni connections are white.
“Qualified and highly deserving applicants of color are harmed as a result, as admissions slots are given instead to the overwhelmingly white applicants who benefit from Harvard’s legacy and donor preferences,” Lawyers for Civil Rights said in a statement on Monday.
The lawsuit argues that qualified applicants of color are disadvantaged because admissions seats are awarded to white applicants with legacy and donor preferences.
“Even worse, this preferential treatment has nothing to do with an applicant’s merit. Instead, it is an unfair and unearned benefit that is conferred solely based on the family that the applicant is born into. This custom, pattern, and practice is exclusionary and discriminatory. It severely disadvantages and harms applicants of color.”
The lawsuit follows the Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn race-based college admissions.
Chief Justice John Roberts, in the conservative majority decision, found that universities wrongly based admissions on the color of a person’s skin instead of their challenges, abilities and experience.
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