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

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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. As of May 2023, there are major legal cases in front of the U.S. What Is Affirmative Action?

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UGA 2024 Early Action Updates

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In addition, the applicant pool has flipped from roughly 65% In-State applicants in 2013 to 42% In-State applicants this year. This year, our growth in EA was more In-State than Out-of-State, with roughly a 3% total increase in EA apps and most of this being from Georgians. UGA mid-50% GPA Average – 3.81-4.22

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UGA 2025 EA Numbers and Information

UGA Undergraduate Admissions Q & A

In addition, the applicant pool has flipped from roughly 65% In-State applicants in 2013 to 40% In-State applicants this year. This year, our growth in EA was roughly 13%, with both In and Out of State numbers growing at about the same rate. As such, our admissions process has had to adapt as well.

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Formerly Incarcerated Man Earns Degree After Decades-Long Fight for Education Behind Bars

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You can get out after any amount of time behind bars and pursue an education and a prosperous life. The idea that kind of prevailed in the Florida system at that time was, Why should we spend money educating these guys that are never going to get out? Fordham, though, wasn't a prisoner any longer. Fordham said.

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March Mammal Madness Offers Scientific Take on Hoops Hysteria

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Housed at Arizona State University, the science-based contest serves as a teaching tool in K-12 and college classrooms. While filling out your NCAA March Madness bracket, you may be supremely confident picking a winner between Kansas and Gonzaga. Battle descriptions are playful yet rooted in the scientific literature.

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Cal Berkeley

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Endowment (2013) $3.3 Endowment (2013) $3.3 One of the preeminent research universities in the world With only 10% of students coming from out of state and another 10% international, Cal remains one of the most competitive universities in the US and perhaps the most competitive of all the UC’s 2013 Admitted Student Profile 20.9%

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Unbiasing AI in Admissions

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“I’m kind of shocked you did this experiment on your students,” Steve Rolston, chair of the physics department at the University of Maryland, stated during a talk with the creators of machine-learning system GRADE. You seem to have built a model that builds in whatever bias your committee had in 2013 and you’ve been using it ever since.”.