On January 24th, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case, Fair Admissions v. Harvard University, which not only has some profound implications for the future of affirmative action in college admissions, but also raises…
Topic: admissions
Should Issues Like Race and Gender Factor Into Admissions? And the Survey Says…
Many people reject the idea that race and gender should factor into college admissions. According to a Pew Research Center survey, nearly three quarters (73%) of American adults think that a college applicant’s race or…
Top 25 High Admission Colleges by Graduation Rate
Who is the top private/non-profit college in this category? Bethel University in Minnesota. Check out the rest of the Top 25 list here. Photo by Devin Westhause Photo by Devin Westhause
Arkansas Law School Won’t Give Race-Based Admissions Data to Professor due to Possible “Harm”
Sounds like the university’s law school is trying to avoid transparency and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests: Without waiting for the courts to rule in a pending FOIA lawsuit from a professor seeking…
Arkansas Law Professor says University is Trying to Make Him Pay for Their Mistakes
Dr. Robert Steinbuch has been trying to get his hands on data to look at the race-based admissions data from the university, which the university redacted portions of it. This has been ongoing since 2013,…
Arkansas is Stonewalling a Professor on Admissions Data
Campus Reform reported: A University of Arkansas at Little Rock law professor is suing the school for withholding public data that he claims will show that race-based admissions policies are a disservice to minority students….
University of Minnesota Recommends Diversity Training for Admissions
Not the administration, but the students are pushing for this! Campus Reform with the latest: Students at the University of Minnesota (UM) are pressuring the administration to institute special training for admissions faculty aimed at…
California High School Students who Failed State Exit Exam are Accepted to Universities
Wait, what?! The College Fix said: Thousands of students in California are “in limbo” after being notified that they cannot take the California High School Exit Exam to get the needed high school diploma and…
GW Admissions Goes “Test-Optional”
Standardized tests such as the ACT and SAT are no longer required by George Washington University. In its weekly e-mail newsletter, the school proudly announced this shift in its admissions process. The move is effective…
Dept of Ed Rejects Asian-American Admissions Discrimination Complaint against Harvard
Obama’s Department of Education dismissed the complaint against Harvard, which alleges that Harvard discriminates against Asian American applicants in the application process and favors minority candidates with less-impressive applications.