The rest, roughly 40.8% of accepted undergraduates, are presumed to be White. Native American and Native Hawaiian students made up 2.7% of accepted undergraduates. “The need for the Department of Education to put a stop to this discriminatory practice is particularly acute now that the Supreme Court has severely limited the use of race as a factor in higher education admissions processes, which is expected to have a negative impact on campus diversity,” the lawsuit said.Īccording to the plaintiffs, “Black, Latinx, and Asian American applicants are all dramatically under-represented among those who receive Donor or Legacy Preferences.”Īccording to Harvard College statistics for the class of 2027, African American and Black students made up 15.3% of accepted undergraduates, Asian Americans made up 29.9% and Latinx students made up 11.3%. The plaintiffs in this new lawsuit allege a portion of the White students admitted to the school because of donor and legacy preferences would not be admitted otherwise, which would increase admissions opportunities for applicants of color. Takeaways from the latest controversial and contentious Supreme Court term REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters Standing (L-R): Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Neil M. Seated (L-R): Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John G. Supreme Court justices pose for their group portrait at the Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., October 7, 2022. The lawsuit cited that ruling and quoted the Supreme Court’s majority, which said, “College admissions are zero-sum, and a benefit provided to some applicants but not to others necessarily advantages the former at the expense of the latter.”įILE PHOTO: U.S. The lawsuit comes less than a week after the Supreme Court gutted affirmative action in college admissions, ruling schools can no longer take race into consideration as a specific basis for accepting a candidate.
It severely disadvantages and harms applicants of color.” “This custom, pattern, and practice is exclusionary and discriminatory. Instead, it is an unfair and unearned benefit that is conferred solely based on the family that the applicant is born into,” Lawyers for Civil Rights said in a news release.
“This preferential treatment has nothing to do with an applicant’s merit. The lawsuit, filed by the Lawyers for Civil Rights group on behalf of the Chica Project, the African Community Economic Development of New England, and the Greater Boston Latino Network, alleges the students who receive that preferential treatment are “overwhelmingly White,” and make up as much as 15% of admitted students. Three minority advocacy groups are suing Harvard University’s governing body, accusing the school of discrimination by giving preferential treatment to children of wealthy donors and alumni, and are citing the recent US Supreme Court ruling that gutted affirmative action to bolster their lawsuit.
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