Spark Admissions

JUNE 30, 2023

On June 29, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina in twin cases brought by Students for Fair Admissions, ruling that the decades-long policy of race-conscious admissions in American higher education was unconstitutional. What Does the Fair Admissions Decision Say?

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BestColleges

AUGUST 26, 2024

Race-neutral admissions policies have historically failed to boost racial diversity among college students. Schmill also dismissed any notion that the decline in underrepresented minorities results from MIT's reinstatement of standardized testing in 2022.

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BestColleges

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Only a handful of private colleges in California have policies favoring legacies. Scrutiny of legacy policies has intensified since the Supreme Court's ban on affirmative action. California's public colleges already are prohibited from giving preferences to legacy applicants.

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BestColleges

MARCH 8, 2024

The university's announcement also includes news on its Early Decision and legacy admissions policies, both of which they'll maintain, at least for now. This new policy will trigger an "increase in applicants from schools with which the admissions office is unfamiliar and who present transcripts that are more difficult to interpret."

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BestColleges

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Criticism of legacy policies has intensified following the U.S. Malcolm Augustine, Senate president pro tem, told The Daily Record the legislation might disadvantage minorities who might otherwise take advantage of legacy preferences. It seems the goalposts keep changing every few years for minorities. Sotomayor said.

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Spark Admissions

JANUARY 28, 2022

Then, as the pandemic continued, many colleges extended their policies for another year or longer. Meanwhile, a few other Ivy League schools (including Cornell University and Stanford University) had already extended their test-optional policies through 2023. What Prompted this Change? Will More Schools Follow Harvard’s Lead?

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People Places Pines

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Kiara Ortiz '24she/her/hersBronx, New York Major Neuroscience Minor Public Policy

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Top Tier Admissions

APRIL 3, 2023

ENROLL NOW The increases in selectivity are due in part to test-optional policies, which many colleges implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic for the class of 2025 as students struggled to find open standardized testing sites and faced other barriers to taking exams.

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The Koppelman Group

DECEMBER 12, 2023

There’s additionally a minor in Urban Studies and Planning, also well as crossover concentrations with the Hass School. There are also focus areas, including City Planning, Policy, and Design, Climate Change and Sustainable Cities, Urban Data Science and Technology in the City, and others. RUTGERS Rutgers’ Edward J.

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Colorado State University

APRIL 12, 2024

Colorado State has many avenues to help you explore leadership, including some that are built into your academic programs, or can be added on as concentrations or minors. If you join and participate in the program for the full three year, you’ll earn a minor in Interdisciplinary Leadership Studies to add to your academic degree. #3.

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The Koppelman Group

APRIL 28, 2023

The program prepares students to use science, economics, and policy “to tackle the world’s most pressing social-environmental problems and sustainability challenges.” The program is also available as a minor. There are seven program tracks, including the Energy, Science, and Technology track.

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Top Tier Admissions

AUGUST 13, 2024

Students who pursue Environmental Science/Studies in college have the opportunity to combine biology, chemistry, and earth sciences with social sciences (such as public policy and economics) to address contemporary environmental issues. degree: Science and Management and Policy and Management. Within the Environmental Studies B.S.

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BestColleges

AUGUST 27, 2024

The decision follows similar policy changes at Ivy League colleges. 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." The year before changing its policy, Hopkins enrolled 8.5%

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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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BestColleges

JULY 20, 2023

What's more, ROTC has been the primary source of minority officers, the brief details, with 29% of Black and 32% of Hispanic officers earning commissions through ROTC in 2019. For now, the military academies can continue to consider race in admissions decisions, a policy that has increased diversity on those campuses in recent years.

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Ivy Central

JUNE 15, 2023

These colleges include the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, the McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science, the School of Communication, the School of Education & Social Policy, the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, the Bienen School of Music, and the School of Professional Studies.

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The Koppelman Group

APRIL 14, 2023

There are numerous degree paths in education at the school, including a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art + Education, a minor in American Sign Language, a BS in Childhood Education, a BS in Math Education or Special Education, or a BA in Music Education. Students take part in internships, student teaching, and service learning.

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Great College Advice

AUGUST 1, 2023

Legacy admissions is a policy that grants preferences to the children of alumni. The policy has been particularly important in the Ivy League and other elite, private schools. And many minorities have passed through the halls of these schools over the past 40-50 years, such that their children now have that legacy preference.

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The Koppelman Group

MARCH 26, 2023

A major, minor, concentration, or program in social justice sets you up to better understand the challenges the world is facing — and how to address them — whether from a nonprofit, advocacy group, governmental agency, or private practice. If you aren’t sure which program is right for you, send us an email. Tisch College of Civic Life.

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Top Tier Admissions

OCTOBER 4, 2024

ENROLL NOW COLLEGE ADMISSIONS PLANS & THE IMPORTANCE OF ED2 We also walked through the different types of Early Action (EA) policies—regular, restrictive, and single-choice—plus how you can balance risk by applying to an ED school alongside several EA schools (as long as they’re not restrictive).

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BestColleges

JUNE 30, 2023

The Supreme Court ruled against race-conscious admissions policies at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. Universities in states that banned affirmative action have experienced a drop in minority enrollments. Its decision left open the possibility of students using application essays to address race.

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The Koppelman Group

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Our list below: STANFORD Stanford’s Communications Department houses a Communications major and a minor. Courses include Journalism Law, Media Economics, Communication Policy and Regulation, Politics of Algorithms, Censorship and Propaganda, Media Psychology, and many more. There are also many cross-departmental labs within Comms.

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BestColleges

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Several selective colleges have reported decreases in underrepresented minority students for this fall's entering class. Colleges reporting stable minority enrollments could draw attention from watchdog groups. Weingarten also points to test-optional policies as a culprit. Supreme Court. That's inarguable."

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Solomon Admissions

MAY 4, 2023

Cons of the SAT and ACT: Access and Equity: Some argue that standardized tests like the SAT and ACT unfairly disadvantage low-income and minority students who may not have access to test preparation resources. Test Optional: More colleges are adopting test-optional policies, which allow students to apply without submitting test scores.

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The Koppelman Group

APRIL 23, 2023

If you’re interested in the combination of environmental studies, sciences, policy, and anthropology, you may want to pursue a course of study in environmental justice. It is an interdisciplinary major and minor, with 17 areas of focus, including Environmental Justice. This puts Environmental Justice at its core.

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BestColleges

JANUARY 18, 2024

Minority enrollments at both law and medical schools have increased in recent years. A decade ago, only about 28% of first-year law students were racial or ethnic minorities. Despite such growth in student diversity, minorities in the legal profession remain underrepresented in the U.S.

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Top Tier Admissions

OCTOBER 22, 2024

For schools with a direct-to-major admissions policy, like the University of California system, CS is almost universally a capped or “high-demand” major with enrollment limits. Small, with a heavy focus on the theoretical, Pomona has both a CS major and minor. In the west, Pomona’s CS program is similarly impressive.

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BestColleges

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Several selective colleges have reported decreases in underrepresented minority students for this fall's entering class. Colleges reporting stable minority enrollments could draw attention from watchdog groups. Weingarten also points to test-optional policies as a culprit. Supreme Court. That's inarguable."

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Top Tier Admissions

JULY 9, 2024

Colleges receive star ratings from 2 to 5 stars to represent performance variations without exaggerating minor score differences. Quality metrics include graduation rates, peer quality, and instructor access; affordability considers net price, debt, and repayment ability; outcomes focus on earnings, employment, and economic mobility.

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BestColleges

JULY 7, 2023

A new lawsuit claims Harvard University discriminates against minority students by favoring legacy applicants. This time, the suit involves legacy admissions , the university's policy of favoring children of alumni. The recent Supreme Court decision to ban race-conscious admissions has reinvigorated debates around legacy admissions.

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The Koppelman Group

MAY 20, 2023

Students at Barnard can pursue an Educational Studies major, and students from any one of the undergraduate colleges at Columbia can do a minor in Urban Teaching or the Educational Studies minor. Students can major in Education and Social Transformation , and minors in Education Studies and Information Media Literacy.

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Office of Undergraduate Admission Blog

MARCH 21, 2023

I am a sophomore from Chicago, Illinois, majoring in Social Policy and minoring in Legal Studies. My name is Denise Sanchez, a Northwestern CLAVE Coordinator. As a young woman in college, it is crucial for college campuses to provide resources for individuals who identify as women on campus. When we say women, that word always.

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The Koppelman Group

MAY 26, 2024

There are six undergraduate schools, Arts & Sciences, Communication, Education & Social Policy, Engineering, Journalism & Marketing, and Music, and more than 100 majors and minors to choose from. With over 100 majors and minors, it’s hard to pick five at Northwestern that are worthy of spotlighting as the ‘best.’

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BestColleges

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The program will offer two majors, focused on cannabis science or cannabis social justice and policy, and one minor. The small, liberal arts college announced it will offer a cannabis studies program this fall, complete with two majors and one minor.

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BestColleges

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Participation in these programs is lower among underrepresented minority students. One is public policy. Fink summarizes these challenges as "exclusionary policies, exclusionary practices, and exclusionary mindsets or attitudes." New data shows that almost 2.5 million high school students took dual enrollment courses in 2022-23.

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Ivy Central

MARCH 25, 2023

Colorado College has a test-optional policy. The college offers over 80 majors and minors, with a focus on the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. GPA and Testing Requirements: Colorado College is extremely competitive. The average GPA at Colorado College is 3.89. 52% of accepted applicants applied without a test score.

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Niche

APRIL 24, 2023

With the upcoming Supreme Court decision around using race in admissions looming this summer it’s important for colleges to proactively find ways to maintain their gains through incentives for low-income and first-generation students, among whom underrepresented minorities are overrepresented.

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