Spark Admissions

MAY 10, 2023

What we now think of as “affirmative action” for demographic minorities, particularly racial minorities, emerged most clearly through President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society programs in the 1960s. That lawsuit led to the first major Supreme Court case on affirmative action in higher education admissions.

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Top Tier Admissions

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As part of its affirmative action program, the University of California at Davis Medical School reserved 16 of the 100 places in each entering class for “qualified” minorities. Colleges and universities already have expanded intentional outreach to low-income and minority students to build more diverse applicant pools.

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BestColleges

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As the higher education community braces itself in anticipation of the U.S. And while the 2003 Gratz v. A 2012 study by The Civil Rights Project titled " The Impact of Affirmative Action Bans in Graduate Education " found that minority enrollment had decreased in states that passed laws prohibiting affirmative action.

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Admissions Madness

JUNE 4, 2022

The 2003 book The Early Admissions Game: Joining the Elite found that applying ED confers a 100 point SAT advantage, which subsequent 2012 research by Antecol & Kiholm supports. A winter 2006/2007 article in the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education discussed the evolving ED landscape since Fallows’s 2001 article.

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BestColleges

JULY 11, 2024

A BestColleges report on the challenges this demographic of students faces found that SEFC often feel like an invisible part of higher education. Still, students can apply for an Education and Training Voucher (ETV) to receive up to $5,000 per year. Financial aid is incredibly valuable for SEFC.

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StandOut College Prep

AUGUST 18, 2023

The Greater Mercer Scholarship This covers the tuition costs for one full year at a higher education institution. This scholarship program is open to all journalism majors, minors and/or staff members of The Montclarion. The deadline to apply is March 31st. Read more here. The deadline is March 31st. The deadline is April 2nd.

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College Essay Guy

MARCH 13, 2023

I spent much of my undergraduate career after this studying literature and learning to write my own narratives as an English major—a pursuit which, continually, drew me back to the themes I studied in courses for a Religious Studies minor. Read it in full first, or scroll down for a paragraph-by-paragraph analysis.

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