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Leadership & Policy

Illinois Scandal Exposes Favoritism in Admissions

A Chicago Tribune investigative report this past week about how the University of Illinois gives extra consideration to well-connected applicants has set off a storm of protests, prompting the school to change its practices and sending politicians who made use of the rules running for cover.

June 4, 2009

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Texas Lawmakers Approve Changing Top 10 Percent Law

Texas lawmakers gave final approval Saturday to a bill scaling back the law allowing automatic college admissions for students in the top 10 percent of their graduating class.

June 1, 2009

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Texas House Approves Changes to Top 10 Percent Admission Rule

The Texas House of Represented on Monday approved changes to the rule that provides automatic college admission to students who graduated in the top 10 percent of their high school class.

May 25, 2009

Students

BOOK REVIEW: Creatiing a Class: College Admissions and the Education of the Elites by Mitchell L. Stevens

It is not by chance that Dr. Mitchell L. Stevens, the author of Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of the Elites (Harvard University Press, 2007), appropriately chooses the word “class” in his book titles.

May 12, 2009

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Study: LSAT Alternative Reveals No Racial Gap in Achievement

Over the past decade, University of California-Berkeley law professor Marjorie Shultz and Vice Provost Sheldon Zedeck have been searching for a better way to predict a student’s potential aptitude for law.

April 29, 2009

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White Man’s Burden? Discrimination Suits Flourish

The issue of reverse discrimination first reached the nation’s highest court in the 1970s, when a student with good grades named Allan Bakke accused a University of California medical school of twice denying him admission because he was White.

April 28, 2009

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Asian American Lawmakers in California Charge UC Admission Change Harmful to Asians

As it prepares to turn answer to a California legislative panel, the University of California is defending changes in its new admissions policy that the school says will broaden the eligibility pool for applicants.

April 19, 2009

Students

SAT-optional Will Trend Take Off or Sputter?

If you’re one of those students afraid standardized test scores don’t paint the full picture of your potential, your options are growing.

April 19, 2009

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Scholars Debate the Efficacy of Race Versus Class-based Affirmative Action in College Admissions

Substituting class for race-conscious affirmative action may be more politically palatable, but it does little to improve racial diversity on college campuses, said affirmative action proponents at a debate Thursday evening.

April 16, 2009

Latinx

Shut Out

Despite an increase in capacity, law schools have been admitting fewer African-American and Mexican American students over the last 15 years.

April 15, 2009

Students

College Officials Strategizing to Ensure Fall Enrollment in Tough Economy

With the economy in a slump, admissions officials scramble to ensure admitted students actually enroll in the fall.

April 7, 2009

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Texas Senate Approves Limits to Top 10 Percent Admission Rule

Debating the most sweeping reform of college admissions policies in more than a decade, Texas senators approved legislation Tuesday that would end automatic entry to students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their high school class.

March 25, 2009