DOJ targets elite universities in early admissions probe: report

The Justice Department (DOJ) has sent letters to top U.S. universities as it probes whether some schools violated antitrust laws by sharing information to aid in the enforcement of their early decision policies, according to news reports.

The Wall Street Journal reports that the DOJ sent letters to Wesleyan University, Middlebury College, Amherst College, and Grinnell College, as well as several other liberal arts universities with high entrance requirements, asking the schools to preserve communications related to the swapping of names of accepted students.

Typically, the rules governing early decision policies force a student to commit to submitting one early decision application to their top choice. The Justice Department is probing whether universities violated the law by sharing names of early-decision students to determine whether those same students made multiple early decision applications.

More information: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/382713-doj-investigating-elite-schools-over-early-admissions-report