College Essay Guy

JANUARY 31, 2025

What doctor makes his patient, recovering from two minor heart attacks within 48 hours, take a blood test for another three hours?" I replaced the oxygen tank for the lady in room 2006 while we talked about our favorite cross-country workouts, and I laid a blanket over the grandpa in room 2014 while we talked about football.

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Shemmassian Academic Consulting

JULY 15, 2025

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Spark Admissions

MAY 10, 2023

Although the term comes up most often these days in the context of college admissions in the United States, affirmative action has been around since the 1960s and has affected a wide range of laws and policies. Indeed, in its origins, it was most closely linked to employment, rather than education.

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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. For the classes of 2014-2019, Harvard legacies were admitted at a rate of 33.6% , compared to 5.9%

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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. In 2014, the percentage had dropped to only 13%. It is not a racist policy. What is legacy admissions?

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BestColleges

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Vague at times, it leaves several key questions unanswered, but the spirit of the bill aligns with growing sentiments around preferential admissions policies. 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.

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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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