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    Editorial: Legacy admissions at colleges are more complicated than they appear. They won’t fully disappear

    by The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune Jul 27, 2023 3 minutes
    Spike Lee delivers the 2016 commencement address at Johns Hopkins University at the Royal Farms Arena on May 18, 2016, in Baltimore.

    After the U.S. Supreme Court found (to no one’s surprise) that colleges and universities could not use a race-based approach in their admissions process, the long-standing attack on legacy admissions at highly selective institutions of higher education ramped up.

    Legacy admissions are what happens when a prospective student’s forebears such as parents or grandparents went to the school to which the applicant is applying. Many colleges and universities over the years have given a significant leg up to such students. In fact, prior to the Supreme Court decision,

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