WASHINGTON, D.C.: The United States Department of Education has opened a civil rights investigation into Harvard University's policy of giving family members of former students and donors preference in admissions decisions, documents showed on Tuesday.
The probe into the prestigious university's "legacy admissions" policy, a practice used by many colleges across the US, comes less than a month after a major Supreme Court decision banned the use of race in college application decisions.
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