NY State Proposal to Ban Legacy and Early Decision admissions

I don’t think this will go anywhere. While I’m not a huge fan of ED (which does tend to favor the wealthy - partly because they are much more aware of its benefits) I don’t see how you could ban it. The same goes for legacy preferences (and how would one monitor it anyway - most of us would know very little about how much of an advantage it confers if not for the Harvard lawsuit - most schools don’t publish this info). This is a very clumsy attempt to address the fact that admissions to selective colleges still strongly favor UMC+ students. I don’t have any answers, but I don’t think this approach would be all that effective.