Tag: AffirmativeAction
Harvard’s Cynical Move to Get Around the Affirmative-Action Decision
Neither it nor its peer institutions will stop attempting to build the image of a ‘racially ideal student body,’ regardless of the Supreme Court ruling.
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Accused of Circumventing Affirmative-Action Ban, Columbia Law Says Video Admissions Requirement Posted in Error
The founder of Students for Fair Admissions said the video requirement ‘has all the hallmarks of a willful effort to evade’ civil-rights law.
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„Heute ist ein harter Tag“: Harvard reagiert auf den Verlust der Affirmative-Action des Obersten Gerichtshofs
„Vielfalt und Differenz sind für akademische Exzellenz von wesentlicher Bedeutung“, heißt es in einem Brief, der von einer Reihe hochrangiger Harvard-Administratoren unterzeichnet wurde.
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How America Has Changed Since the First Affirmative-Action Case
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Question of the Week
If you were in charge of the admissions office at a top-50 college or university, how would you decide which applicants got accepted as undergraduates and which got rejected? (How would you weight grades? Test scores?