US judge rules 32 universities must face lawsuit over alleged early-admission collusion
美国32所高校被指控招生过程相互合谋
A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled on August 10 that 32 prominent US universities, including Duke, Cornell, and Northwestern, must face a proposed class-action lawsuit. The suit, filed by former students, accuses the schools of conspiring through their 'early decision' admissions programs to avoid competing for each other's accepted applicants, thereby inflating tuition costs for tens of thousands of students. The judge found the plaintiffs' allegations of antitrust violations to be plausibly argued.
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