Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held.
This bill would ban colleges and universities that accept federal student aid from giving admissions advantages to applicants because their parents donated money or attended the same school. If it passes, schools would have to stop favoring "legacy" applicants and children of donors, or risk losing access to federal financial aid programs.
Getting into college could become fairer for millions of applicants who don't have family connections to a school. This bill would force nearly every college in America to stop giving admissions boosts to children of alumni and donors , or lose the federal funding that most students depend on.