In June 2023, the US Supreme court made a landmark decision effectively banning the use of affirmative action policies at the nation’s top colleges and universities.
As a result of the SFFA’s lawsuit against Harvard, it was revealed that student prospects who come from wealthy backgrounds are “accepted at a rate of nearly 34 percent, compared with just 5.9 percent of ordinary people.” Additionally, there are many documented cases of wealthy people simply buying their children into these elite institutions by donating large sums of money to said universities.
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