California bans legacy admissions at private college. Why not ban affirmative action?

“Why not ban what is banned?!”

Brilliant

Privates in California can still do it.

What it obviously stated is that while affirmative is allegedly banned for publics, it still happens.

I don't approve of legacy admissions but I don't understand how a state can ban the practice at private universities. I assume Stanford and USC do receive some state funds in the form of research grants and the like--is it just that all state funding will be withdrawn if they don't comply?

I’ve got no problem with this. Legacy admits are just as bad as DEI admits. The unintended consequence of such a policy that few are discussing, is it will cut into their alumni donations and they won’t be able to offer as much in financial aid to poor kids. It is a double edged sword.

What is obvious is that banning legacy admissions won’t stop it from happening.

I think the issue for most, libertarian or not, is "Why is it the States business what goes on in a private business/university?"

It's so overreaching.

With Stanford's 36 billion dollar endowment, they could provide full tuition to all 8000 undergraduate students for the next 75 years

Stanford and USC don’t receive much state funding, so that alone would probably not be the tipping factor, but the law essentially threatens to sue them over discriminatory practices by fishing for something in the data they will be forced to report if they violate the law. My guess also is that these universities are not desperate to cling to legacy anyway and might even be secretly approving of the law.

”Like other states, California won’t financially penalize violators, but it will post the names of violators on the state Department of Justice’s website.
California will also add to data reporting requirements that it implemented in 2022, when private colleges had to start sharing the percentage of admitted students who were related to donors and alumni. Schools that run afoul of the new law will also have to report more granular demographic information about their incoming classes to the state, including the race and income of enrolled students as well as their participation in athletics.”

Ban z i o n i s t s and N a z i s too!

Does the US have a long history of discrimination against legacies? Could be the reason why. White people have received preferential treatment in AmeriKKKa for centuries but now you have your panties in a wad because they are trying to level the playing field and get some pay back. STFU

Good move.

USC is the 2nd richest school in the USA with the largest DoD, NASA endowements and the Deep Space, Apollo, GemIni, B-1, star wars project credits, and Neil Armstrong 1st man on the moon.

Pepperdine is the richest since it sits on reals estate worth $5 Trillion to the Chinese and SaudiS.

Legacy admissions are available to all races, white, black, asian etc. Affirmative action is only open to certain minorities, THATS the difference...

Whereas gaining a college place because your dad went there is much fairer 🤡🤡🤡

Then Ivies are filled undeserving undergraduates and presidents from an entitled group

And yet not even as close as the over reach of states telling a woman what she can do with her body.

Dumb argument. The problem with either is it’s not based on merit alone. What if they had a chart of how big a donation to the college was required to ensure admission for how low a SAT score? It could be worded so as to be legal, but would be wrong for a similar reason as legacy.

almost like a bill making it illegal for illegal aliens to vote but it is already illegal for them to vote.

This is pretty ridiculous. Having different standards for children of alumni or donors is really no different than having different standards for athletes. If they want to make everything fair, just make college applications purely lottery at that point.

an athlete may have their own good scores and grades, as well as their own unusual athletic ability superior to the rest of campus and most of the country.

a legacy is literally underqualified and getting in for someone else's accomplishment.