Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) signed a bill banning legacy preferences in admissions at the state’s public universities.
The University of Virginia campus. While many of the state’s public colleges don’t give such legacy preferences, the new measures will be felt at two highly selective schools: the University of Virginia and William & Mary. Students in Virginia will no longer get a thumb on the scale when they apply to the public universities their parents attended, after Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed bills banning legacy preferences in admissions Friday.
The measures, which will prohibit public universities from providing preferential treatment in admissions to any applicant based on the student’s legacy status or relationship to any donor to the institution, were unanimously endorsed by both chambers in the General Assembly. “For my family and so many others, college has been a critical pathway to the middle class,” said Rep. Dan Helmer , who sponsored the bill with identical language in the House. “And I and Senator VanValkenburg both deeply believe that path should be open to as many students as possible, based on what they’ve accomplished and who they are, and not who their parents are.
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