Spark Admissions

MAY 10, 2023

Although the term comes up most often these days in the context of college admissions in the United States, affirmative action has been around since the 1960s and has affected a wide range of laws and policies. Indeed, in its origins, it was most closely linked to employment, rather than education.

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Ivy Central

MAY 13, 2023

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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The Thoughtful College Search

MAY 16, 2022

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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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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