WILBRAHAM — Legislation is being considered on Beacon Hill that would ban state universities from considering an applicant’s relation to an alum in its admission decision, a practice known as legacy admissions. Minnechaug Regional High School rising senior Abyssinia Haile, incoming state president of the Massachusetts Association of Student Councils, spoke in favor of House bill H.1282 and Senate bill S.821.
Haile told legislators, “I’ve been many ‘firsts’ — the first black editor-in-chief for my school’s newspaper, the first black female president for our state’s student government organization, and next fall, the first in my family to attend a four-year college or university in the United States.”