The colleges will still be allowed to admit students with alumni or donor ties, but they’ll no longer be able to grant them preferential treatment.
USC Viterbi School of Engineering graduates celebrate during their commencement ceremony at the Galen Center in Los Angeles on Friday, May 10, 2024. California’s private nonprofit colleges will no longer be able to grant students an admissions advantage if their parents donated to or went to the same college after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law Monday morning banning the practice.
Partly because California enrolls the most number of college students out of any state in the country, bill backers say this legislation is a necessary corrective to last year’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that bannedClaremont McKenna College is one of the California private colleges that used legacy admissions in 2022 that will be affected by a new state law that will ban the practice that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed on Monday, Sept. 30, 2024.
If the Supreme Court decision last year sowed doubt for students that they’re wanted on college campuses, this bill aims to reverse that feeling in California and across the country, supporters say, particularly at a time when. And while most colleges in California admit the vast majority of students who apply, backers of the bill are concerned about highly selective schools that are often conveyor belts for corporate and political influence.
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