BestColleges

APRIL 4, 2023

Anthropology majors benefit from strategically pursuing internships and minors to launch their careers. There's strong demand for computer science professionals, with the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projecting 418,500 job openings annually from 2021-2031.

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Top Tier Admissions

MARCH 24, 2023

However, unlike the Ivies , for which overall acceptance rates sat below 7% across the board in the 2021-22 application cycle, some of the top-ranking liberal arts colleges exhibit more generous numbers. increase in applications between the 2020-21 and 2021-22 cycles and a decrease in acceptance rate from 8.74% to 6.93%; Pomona saw a 4.9%

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BestColleges

JULY 7, 2023

A new lawsuit claims Harvard University discriminates against minority students by favoring legacy applicants. The plaintiffs argued that legacy preferences, along with early admission programs, "operate to the disadvantage of minority applicants." Connecticut considered a similar bill. Hopkins' president, Ronald J.

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BestColleges

APRIL 27, 2023

For the university's class of 2021, 28.7% Students across the board who apply early — not just athletes — tend to come from wealthier families, notes a 2021 report from the Institute for Higher Education Policy. Brown University, for example, reserves more than 220 spots for recruited athletes.

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BestColleges

MAY 16, 2023

Only 6% of transfer applicants during the 2021-22 academic year came from ZIP codes in the lowest-income neighborhoods, according to new data from Common App. During the 2021-22 academic year, 56% of the more than 112,000 transfer applicants came from ZIP codes in the wealthiest neighborhoods across the U.S.

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BestColleges

JANUARY 23, 2024

Only 8% of bachelor’s degrees were awarded in social sciences and history in 2021, compared to 19% in business and 13% in health sciences. Between 2010 and 2021, the number of degrees awarded in computer science increased by 144%. By 2014, those figures had dropped to 2.6% and 9.2%, respectively.

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AdmissionSight

JANUARY 5, 2025

Historical transfer acceptance rates Lets dig into the numbers from the past three years to get some context: Year Applicants Admitted Acceptance Rate 2023 3,254 187 5.75% 2022 3,008 341 11.34% 2021 3,039 448 14.74% Whats the trend? Almost half of the undergrads identify as minorities, making it one of the most diverse schools out there.

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BestColleges

JANUARY 23, 2024

The strategy presumes that high-achieving students from underresourced communities will gain a greater opportunity to attend college, smoothing the pathway for both low-income and racial minority students. Texas, for example, launched its Texas Top Ten Percent Plan in 1997 after a federal appellate court ruled in Hopwood v.

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Top Tier Admissions

DECEMBER 6, 2022

As mentioned, the Class of 2026 is the largest ever at Princeton; it is worth noting that the 2021-22 admissions cycle was the first year in a four-year strategic planning process aimed at expanding the undergraduate student body. In 2021-22, however, the policy was reinstated.

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Ivy Central

MARCH 25, 2023

and a minor in Applied Developmental Psychology. Note: Senior Survey was not distributed in 2020 and 2021). UCLA offers three undergraduate majors, including Psychology (B.A.), Cognitive Science (B.S.), and Psychobiology (B.S.), These majors have different focuses and cater to various student interests and needs.

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BestColleges

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Black workers make up about 9% of the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) workforce, according to a 2021 Pew Research study HBCUs produce 40% of all Black engineers and 27% of Black STEM undergraduates, according to a research group at Brown University. or MD/Ph.D. or MD/Ph.D. With the U.S.

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EAB

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHHD) developed the Brother You’re On My Mind (BYOMM) toolkit based on research that showed a gap in depression treatment for college-aged Black men. November 19, 2021. October 26, 2021. August 12, 2021. July 22, 2021. May 4, 2021.

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AdmissionSight

JANUARY 5, 2025

Overloading with minor awards It might be tempting to fill up all five slots with every award youve ever won, but quality beats quantity. For instance, listing 2021-2023 for a recurring award highlights your sustained dedication. Adding details makes your accomplishments clear and impactful.

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BestColleges

MARCH 6, 2024

Black workers make up about 9% of the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) workforce, according to a 2021 Pew Research study. Black workers make up about 9% of the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) workforce, according to a 2021 Pew Research study.

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BestColleges

MARCH 12, 2024

Biden's proposal includes two years of tuition-free learning for some students at minority-serving institutions. Minority-serving institutions would see a funding increase of $93 million compared to 2023. Biden's Build Back Better proposal from 2021 originally held a similar exclusion for students at for-profit institutions.

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Ivy Central

JUNE 15, 2023

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences is the liberal arts college at Northwestern University and it offers over 60 undergraduate majors and minors. In 2021, the Northwestern field hockey team won the NCAA national championship. Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences is one of the 12 schools at Northwestern University.

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EAB

JUNE 20, 2023

That can be kind of difficult to wrap our heads around because some complaints can be minor or even seem ridiculous to leaders. MA: Is the suggestion, then, that leaders stop taking action to address more minor complaints? MO: Well, the Complaint Translator starts with the basic premise that some complaints aren’t really complaints.

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BestColleges

JANUARY 12, 2023

The Connecting Minority Communities pilot program has awarded nearly $52 million to 19 schools. At the heart of our Lincoln University mission is ensuring our students have access to educational opportunities, and we are proud to share — and ultimately achieve — that aim with NTIA's Connecting Minority Communities Pilot Program.".

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

MAY 20, 2024

We often get asked whether a double major or a minor boosts your odds of getting into med school. While some admissions committee members will likely admire your diverse interests and pursuits, we have not observed the presence or absence of a double major or a minor as a significant factor in medical school admissions.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

How UWM addressed financial gaps that pose large barriers to student success Case Study: Paving the Path to Equity through Completion Grants and Hold Reform Like many other institutions, leaders at UWM realized that financial barriers often hindered the progress of first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented minority students.

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BestColleges

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The White Family Foundation previously established the real estate finance minor with a $20.8 According to the press release, the gift will create a revised curriculum based on 2021-2022 pilot programs to help students lead at the intersection of business and technology. million commitment. million commitment.

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BestColleges

JULY 18, 2023

A spring 2023 snapshot survey from the Institute of International Education (IIE) found that 98% of surveyed institutions are offering in-person or hybrid study abroad opportunities during the summer 2023 semester, up from just 31% in 2021. Priority will be given to minority-serving institutions (MSIs), according to the bill's text.

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BestColleges

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Malcolm Augustine, Senate president pro tem, told The Daily Record the legislation might disadvantage minorities who might otherwise take advantage of legacy preferences. He's not alone in his conviction that removing legacy preferences constitutes a lost opportunity for minority students. Sotomayor said.

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BestColleges

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The Common App began a pilot program in 2021 that resulted in over 800 out of 33,000 students accepting direct admissions offers at 14 institutions. Last year, the Common App announced the number of underrepresented minority applicants grew by 131%, while first-generation college student rates grew 90%. colleges and universities.

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BestColleges

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The partnership began in 2021 after Emory sought a land acknowledgement since it was built on Muscogee (Creek) Nation land. The partnership between the two colleges came about after Emory launched a land acknowledgement initiative in 2021. The grant will support CMN's transition to a four-year institution.

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Admissions.Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Acknowledging that it’s first year on the Common App shook things up quite a bit, UIUC has now officially shared that received over 63,000 applications, during the 2021-2022 admissions cycle, which is a robust thirty-three percent increase over the 2020-2021 admissions cycle, which was UIUC’s last pre-Common App.

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BestColleges

JANUARY 12, 2023

The Illinois-based company expanded into the NIL space in 2021 with school-specific NIL Stores that handle the creative, product creation, design, marketing, fulfillment and customer service for its college athletes.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Rice student population Undergraduate students: 4,480 Graduate students: 4,085 In March 2021, Rice announced that it plans to gradually increase the size of its student body over the next few years. I plan to minor in Philosophy to better understand the social problems preventing change.

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BestColleges

MAY 10, 2023

Atlanta's Public Safety Training Center, known by its opponents as "Cop City," has faced notable backlash in local communities since 2021. Those who oppose its presence are concerned that the center will only increase negative interactions and instances of brutality between police and minorities.

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BestColleges

MAY 5, 2023

Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created Axim Collaborative with funds realized from the 2021 sale of edX. The nonprofit's rhetoric certainly matches what Harvard and MIT promised in 2021 when they sold edX to the online tech company 2U. It's unclear exactly how Axim will achieve its goals.

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BestColleges

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Second, the language calls for universities to separately disaggregate minority and low-income students when reporting statistics on legacy and early admissions, but it doesn't say why. Now that race-based considerations have been deemed illegal, any admissions practices that disfavor racial minorities have attracted even greater scrutiny.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

MARCH 5, 2024

If all people came to medicine from a certain ethnic minority or low socioeconomic background, that wouldn’t be so interesting, would it? In the 2021–2022 cycle, as the long-term effects of the pandemic became more evident, many of those formerly optional prompts became required of all applicants.

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BestColleges

JUNE 8, 2023

Since then, Kirby Smart has collected back-to-back national titles in 2021 and 2022, two SEC championships, five SEC Eastern Division titles, and seven bowl game victories. 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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Top Tier Admissions

JANUARY 13, 2023

A staggering 61,220 students applied in the 2021-22 application cycle, a significant rise from the 57,435 who applied in the 2020-21 cycle, which represented a 42.7% Pandemic-era test-optional policies account for the highly competitive 2021-22 admissions cycle. increase over the 40,248 students who applied in the 2019-20 cycle.

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BestColleges

AUGUST 3, 2023

Nationally, in-state students at public, four-year colleges in 2020-2021 paid $9,375 for tuition and fees, while Georgia residents paid an average of only $7,525. The institute features a robust catalog of 130 majors and minors. decline of students at all state colleges and universities from fall 2021-2022.

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BestColleges

AUGUST 27, 2024

Several first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented minority students chose to "suppress their test scores," the report says, "rendering their applications less compelling than they might have been." In 2021, only 3.7% Some of those students scored 1500 or above. The year before changing its policy, Hopkins enrolled 8.5%

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BestColleges

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Bowie State University hosted the first annual HBCU Entrepreneurship Conference in 2021 and has continued to do so each year during the last week of September, which is regarded as National HBCU Week. It also made our list of best HBCUs for entrepreneurship since it offers both a major and a minor in the discipline.

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