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College admissions and exclusions


It's Time to Make College Admissions Less Exclusionary - MindMax

There is an implicit understanding among college applicants that their worth is being weighed and measured. Schools' decisions are binary—you're ...

College admissions and exclusions

In the 1990s, Board of Regents member Ward Connerly led the campaign to end affirmative action in UC admissions. The board formally voted to ban the use of race ...

Ensuring Fairness in College Admissions

Despite the historical exclusion and current underrepresentation of many Americans in our colleges and universities, in June 2023, the Supreme Court of the ...

Why Exclude Test Scores from Admission Criteria? * - Yucheng Liang

real-world college admissions, where admission officers can review applicants' high school GPAs along with their demographic information ...

Fair college admissions don't exist, let's stop searching for it

As Jerome Karabel notes in his 2005 monograph The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, these ...

Affirmative Action and College Admissions - FindLaw

This method guarantees admission to their state's public universities to the top graduates of every high school. This approach aims to benefit ...

College Admission Gets Personal - Inside Higher Ed

Some admissions officers believe bypassing the traditional application in favor of a more personal approach could have benefits for a wide range ...

The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion by Jerome Karabel ...

This concern proved unfounded and in retrospect almost laughable. With the larger pool of applicants to draw from, selective colleges and universities could ...

The Future of College Admissions without Affirmative Action

The systemic exclusion of students of color from higher education means white students benefit most from legacy preferences in admissions.

The Supreme Court's ban on affirmative action means colleges will ...

Race-blind admissions processes will further exacerbate existing inequalities and undermine the recognition of the unique challenges that Black, ...

The Sixth Rule of Applying to College: You Are Not the Exception

A “regular” applicant to a highly selective school that admits only 6% of students is probably facing a 3% chance of admission, at best. When ...

Admissions at most colleges will be unaffected by Supreme Court ...

In addition, students from historically excluded racial and ethnic groups are under-represented at more selective colleges, even though those ...

The disparate impacts of college admissions policies on Asian ...

We cannot identify athletic recruits with certainty, but we exclude from our sample students who appear to be athletic recruits based on the ...

How to ensure fairness in college admissions - Lumina Foundation

Many recruitment, admissions, and enrollment policies and practices – particularly at selective schools – regularly exclude those students who ...

The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale ...

But the admissions policies of elite universities have long been both tightly controlled and shrouded in secrecy. In The Chosen, the Berkeley sociologist Jerome ...

Student Story: Race-Blind College Admissions Will Decrease ...

Student Story: Race-Blind College Admissions Will Decrease Diversity, Increase Exclusion ... SOUTH JERSEY – Affirmative action has been a long- ...

Ban on Race-Conscious Admissions is a Threat to Democracy and ...

... Exclusion in Higher Education. Published. June 29th, 2023 ... President and Fellows of Harvard College, the Campaign for College Opportunity strongly ...

A Radical Plan to Combat Inequality in College Admissions

Were admissions officers at selective schools to come from a broader swath of the population, admissions offices might more readily contest ...

The Black Box of College Admissions - The Regulatory Review

Past federal litigation and legislation have clarified some of the impermissible reasons for colleges to deny admission to students: sex, race, ...

Busting College Admissions Myths For Those With Learning ...

Any college that accepts federal funds (which take various forms, such as Pell grants) has to provide basic accommodations, and even schools ...