Breaking Down The New Antitrust Investigation Into Colleges

By ​Amy Gallegos​, Richard Stone ​and Elizabeth Capel (May 14, 2018, 5:38 PM EDT) -- Recently, The Wall Street Journal and other news outlets reported that the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice issued letters to certain elite colleges and universities asking them to preserve documents detailing formal or informal agreements to share the identities of accepted students with other colleges, communications with other schools sharing the identities of accepted students, and records of action taken based at least in part on information received through those communications with other schools.[1] The letters indicate that the DOJ is investigating a "potential agreement between colleges relating to their early decision practices."[2]...

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