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With this measure Applications through family or monetary connections will no longer be favored in private schools, with the intention that the most prestigious institutions provide more equitable spaces.
Inheritance preferences will be prohibited in the state starting in the fall of 2025. “Everyone in California should be able to get ahead through merit, skill and hard work,” Newsom said in a news release.
The measure will affect various universities such as Stanford, the University of Southern California (USC) and Santa Clara Universitywho will now have to work under the system run by the California State University and other public institutions that have been prohibiting income based on inheritance for years.
It should be said that, according to an article by NBCNews, in 2022, admissions of students with family connections accounted for about 14 percent of Stanford’s enrollment and USC, and 13 percent of Santa Clara.
Given this, the governor insisted that The intent of the law is that any Californian can have access to quality higher education and that this is not only for a few.
The law will require private universities reveal compliance with the new standard by submitting an annual report.
College fraud led to new law in California
The middle NBCNews recalled that the project law that will prohibit universities from giving preference to certain students based on their family connections or monetary, is related to a fraud committed in 2019.
San Francisco Democratic Assemblyman Phil Ting, who wrote the bill, was pushing it after it was discovered that dozens of people, including Hollywood actors, had participated in a fraud scheme in university entrance exams.
In this regard, the legislator told the media: “everything is a matter of justice, we want people to work hard and achieve access to education because they have worked hard and they are really the most qualified students, not because they have rich parents or donor families.”
Nevertheless, Santa Clara University assured that it has always been committed to fair and equitable practices, Therefore, family connections have never been decisive for a student’s admission, but rather academic quality, leadership, preparation and resilience in the face of challenges.
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