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The End of Affirmative Action and the Future of College Admissions

Top Tier Admissions

Michigan, where voters passed a similar referendum in 2006 (Proposition 2), soon saw dramatic drops in the numbers of African American and Latino students enrolling. Today, public universities are required to automatically accept every Texas high school student who graduates in the top 10 percent of their class.

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HBCU in Delaware

BestColleges

Ambassador to the Marshall Islands between 2006 and 2009. Goldey-Beacom College Goldey-Beacom College is a significantly smaller school with less than 1,000 students and a much higher acceptance rate of 98%. Despite its size, it has a much bigger minority population than the University of Delaware.

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Volume 22, Issue 3 – June 2023

THE SOUTHERN SCOPE – COLLEGE ADMISSIONS BLOG

However, after a second denial by the University of California, Davis, he sued in state court challenging the constitutionality of the school’s affirmative action program, one which featured the set aside of 16 of its 100 seats for minority students. The University of California system appealed to the Supreme Court.

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Early Decision is a Racket

Admissions Madness

Because acceptance rates are a heavily weighted criteria in rankings such as US News , that propels a university up the charts or maintains its position. He writes, “Today’s professional-class madness…that being accepted or rejected from a ‘good’ college is the most consequential fact about one’s education.

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Medical Schools in Florida: How to Get In (2022)

Shemmassian Academic Consulting

Why waste time and money applying when your chances of receiving an acceptance are slim to none? For example, Florida State University’s website spends considerable real estate discussing their service to elder, rural, minority, and other underserved populations. University of South Florida Health Morsani College of Medicine *.

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How to Succeed as a Stanford Premed

Shemmassian Academic Consulting

In actuality, majoring in biochemistry over art history has no statistical advantage and doesn’t really change whether you’re accepted into medical school. describe your schedule”, “tell us why you should be accepted”, etc.) acceptance rate is the 2nd lowest in the country, with only Kaiser Permanente having a lower rate.

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The One Thing We Can Be Certain Of Is Continued Uncertainty

Admissions Village

It’s worth noting that nine states - California (1996), Washington (1998), Florida (1999), Michigan (2006), Nebraska (2008), Arizona (2010), New Hampshire (2012), Oklahoma (2012), and Idaho (2020) – already had bans on affirmative action in place. There is a lot of uncertainty about what will happen to race-based scholarships.

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