College Essay Guy

JUNE 30, 2025

Living in Chicago’s southside but attending a school near downtown let me witness first-hand the disparities regarding funding and profitability between start-ups created by minorities in my predominantly African American community and nonminorities in the financial district.

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Spark Admissions

MAY 10, 2023

Indeed, in its origins, it was most closely linked to employment, rather than education. What we now think of as “affirmative action” for demographic minorities, particularly racial minorities, emerged most clearly through President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society programs in the 1960s. Regents of the University of California v.

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Ivy Central

MAY 13, 2023

This means that 97% of first-year students continue their education for their sophomore year and beyond. 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.

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Top Tier Admissions

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

As recently as 2016, the Supreme Court upheld that taking account of race as “one factor among many” to achieve educational diversity was permissible. As part of its affirmative action program, the University of California at Davis Medical School reserved 16 of the 100 places in each entering class for “qualified” minorities.

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BestColleges

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As the higher education community braces itself in anticipation of the U.S. And while the 2003 Gratz v. A 2012 study by The Civil Rights Project titled " The Impact of Affirmative Action Bans in Graduate Education " found that minority enrollment had decreased in states that passed laws prohibiting affirmative action.

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Admissions Madness

JUNE 4, 2022

The 2003 book The Early Admissions Game: Joining the Elite found that applying ED confers a 100 point SAT advantage, which subsequent 2012 research by Antecol & Kiholm supports. He writes, “Today’s professional-class madness…that being accepted or rejected from a ‘good’ college is the most consequential fact about one’s education.

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BestColleges

JULY 11, 2024

A BestColleges report on the challenges this demographic of students faces found that SEFC often feel like an invisible part of higher education. You must complete the FAFSA or Colorado Application for State Financial Aid (CASFA), plus the Education and Training Voucher (ETV) application.

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