Children who live in Aventura are given admission preference during the admission lottery held every year.

The Bowen-Bok study says that eliminating admission preferences based on race "would only marginally help members of the majority."

State universities, for instance, want this data for no reason other than to employ racial and ethnic admission preferences.

But Berkeley may soon become one of the first campuses in the nation to abandon the cornerstone of affirmative action in higher education: admission preferences based on race.

Freemen's children get admission preference at the City of London Freemen's School.

Students who reside in the Wiseburn community are given admission preference to attend Da Vinci Schools.

Daniel Golden, The Wall Street Journal, for his compelling and meticulously documented stories on admission preferences given to the children of alumni and donors at American universities.

Advocates of affirmative action praised the findings as proof that those who were given admission preferences have careers similar to those who were not.

Professors also worry that donors will pressure universities on policy as well as admission preference for their children.

"It is no longer possible to have intercollegiate athletics without recruiting or some degree of admission preference."