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— House Democrats have called for hearings to examine the role of wealth in admissions. “We’ll have them at some point,” Rep. Donna Shalala (D-Fla.), the former president of the University of Miami, told POLITICO Wednesday. “We need to look into how admissions people organized their work. I was surprised — this is basically using the walk-on process as an end run to get people on in a university. I have not seen very much of that. I’ve run a lot of universities. And I want to question the admissions people.”