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How Will the Harvard Lawsuit Affect Affirmative Action in College Admissions?

Spark Admissions

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. Bollinger in 2003), considered race. Regents of the University of California v.

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What You Need to Know About Vanderbilt University

Ivy Central

The College of Arts and Science is the largest school at Vanderbilt, offering more than 100 majors and minors across 70+ fields of study from English to Economics, Climate Studies to Chemistry, and Philosophy to Physics. Minors are offered by all four Vanderbilt undergraduate schools.

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Affirmative Action Ban Would Limit Faculty Diversity

BestColleges

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. Minority engineering enrollments declined by 26%.

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The Future of Race-Conscious Admissions

Top Tier Admissions

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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Isn't It Ironic, or Students for Fair Admissions Seeks to Get Out of (the) Grutter

The Thoughtful College Search

With UNC the primary argument is that the university does not consider Asian-Americans as an underrepresented minority as it does with African-Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans. It asks the Supreme Court to overturn the 2003 case Grutter v Bollinger. There is one interesting (and I think new) argument in the SFFA filing.

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Who Are The Highest-Paid College Football Coaches?

BestColleges

million The Tigers welcomed Dabo Swinney to Death Valley as a wide receiver coach back in 2003, and they haven't looked back since. Tucker received the Big Ten Coach of the Year and College Coach of the Year awards from the National Coalition of Minority Football Coaches.

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Early Decision is a Racket

Admissions Madness

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. Early Decision (ED) differs from Early Action (EA) or Priority deadlines because students may only apply to a single ED school.