A leaked email from MIT's admissions dean reveals the university admitted two students they wouldn't have otherwise, based on recommendations from the board chairman. Court filings in a price-fixing lawsuit against 17 elite colleges accuse them of colluding to limit financial aid and favor wealthy children.
MIT's dean of admissions wrote in a 2018 email that the university admitted four out of six applicants recommended by its then-board chairman, including two who “we would really not have otherwise admitted,” new filings in a class-action lawsuit show. MIT called the lawsuit and the claims about admissions favoritism baseless.
Georgetown’s then-president, for example, listed a prospective student on his “president’s list” after meeting her and her wealthy father at an Idaho conference known as “summer camp for billionaires,” according to Tuesday court filings in the price-fixing lawsuit filed in Chicago federal court in 2022. Although it’s always been assumed that such favoritism exists, the filings offer a rare peek at the often secret deliberations of university heads and admissions officials. They show how schools admit otherwise unqualified wealthy children because their parents have connections and could possibly donate large sums down the line, raising questions about fairness. Stuart Schmill, the dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrote in a 2018 email that the university admitted four out of six applicants recommended by then-board chairman Robert Millard, including two who “we would really not have otherwise admitted.” The two others were not admitted because they were “not in the ball park, or the push from him was not as strong.” In the email, Schmill said Millard was careful to play down his influence on admissions decisions, but he said the chair also sent notes on all six students and later met with Schmill to share insight “into who he thought was more of a priority.” The filings are the latest salvo in a lawsuit that claims that 17 of the nation’s most prestigious colleges colluded to reduce the competition for prospective students and drive down the amount of financial aid they would offer, all while giving special preference to the children of wealthy donor
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