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This law was first created in 2024. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 2<\/a> and 15<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":false,"permalink":{"id":184899,"object_type":"law","relational_id":74443,"identifier":"23.1-407.2","token":"23.1\/II\/4\/23.1-407.2","url":"\/23.1-407.2\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/23.1-407.2\/","token":"23.1\/II\/4\/23.1-407.2","dublin_core":{"Title":"Admissions applications; legacy admissions and admissions based on donor status prohibited","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 23.1-407.2","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

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B.<\/span> No public institution of higher education<\/span> shall provide any manner of preferential treatment in the admissions decision to any student applicant on the basis of such student’s legacy status<\/span> or such student’s familial relationship to any donor to such institution. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nADMISSIONS APPLICATIONS; LEGACY ADMISSIONS AND ADMISSIONS BASED ON DONOR STATUS\nPROHIBITED (\u00a7 23.1-407.2)\n\nA. As used in this section, “legacy status” means the familial\nrelationship of an individual applying for admission to an institution of higher\neducation to an alumnus of such institution.\n\nB. No public institution of higher education shall provide any manner of\npreferential treatment in the admissions decision to any student applicant on\nthe basis of such student’s legacy status or such student’s familial\nrelationship to any donor to such institution.\n\nHISTORY: 2024, cc. 2, 15.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}