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By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) -Brown, Yale and Columbia universities have agreed to pay a combined $62 million to resolve a lawsuit that accused them and others of favoring wealthy applicants, pushing total settlements in the case to $118 million. Lawyers for a proposed class of hundreds of thousands of current and former U.S. college students disclosed the latest settlements, which also include Emory and Duke, in a filing late Tuesday in Chicago federal court. The University of Chicago and Vanderbilt had already reached settlements in the 2022 case, which alleged massive tuition overcharges in …

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