Dartmouth named in lawsuit accusing universities of inflating tuition through early admissions

Dartmouth named in lawsuit accusing universities of inflating tuition through early admissions

A federal antitrust lawsuit filed on Aug. 8 in the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts accused Dartmouth and 31 other colleges and universities - including Columbia University, Cornell University, Duke University and the University of Pennsylvania - of conspiring to inflate tuition through binding early decision admissions."Defendant schools have mutually agreed not to compete for students accepted through early decision, which both raises pri…