It’s time to end legacy admissions
WE ARE JUST learning how the Supreme Court decision banning the consideration of race in college admissions affected the composition of this fall’s first-year classes, but two things are already clear. First, many selective colleges saw large drops in Black enrollment. Second, if we want diverse student bodies, we need to remove as many barriers as we can.
That is what California just did. It became the fifth state–after Colorado, Virginia, Maryland, and Illinois–to ban legacy admissions, one of the more obvious barriers to diversity in college admissions. Massachusetts should become the sixth state.