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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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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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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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

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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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

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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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DC College Counseling

MARCH 12, 2024

BROWN, PENN, AND UT AUSTIN ANNOUNCE TESTING POLICY UPDATES Last week, Brown announced that they will reinstate the standardized testing requirement for the Class of 2029 (current high school juniors). The new version is also significantly shorter than it was in the past, coming in at just over two hours with only two sections.

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BestColleges

MARCH 14, 2024

From racist voting policies, to unraveling reproductive freedoms and attempting to rewrite Black history, DeSantis has waged war on Black America." To the MANY minority athletes at UF, please be aware and vocal about this decision by the university who is now closing the doors on other minorities without any oversight."

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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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BestColleges

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The Academic Senate is one of three branches in the University of California system, along with the Board of Regents, which sets broad policy, and the administration, which directs the organization of the university and its finances, according to UC.

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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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BestColleges

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The petition says the policy directly hurts campus diversity. are petitioning to eliminate legacy admissions — university policies that favor children of alums, faculty, and staff in admissions. Georgetown projected a decrease in enrollment from underrepresented groups. As of Sept. 11, there are over 700 signatures. "In

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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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BestColleges

JANUARY 23, 2024

The strategy presumes that high-achieving students from underresourced communities will gain a greater opportunity to attend college, smoothing the pathway for both low-income and racial minority students. In 2009, Texas amended the policy, raising the threshold to 6-7% for the University of Texas at Austin.

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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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BestColleges

APRIL 15, 2024

Caltech does not consider SAT or ACT testing, its website stated until its policy reversal. During the suspension of testing, applicant pools have featured more underrepresented minority, low-income, and first-generation students. Until recently, Caltech remained defiantly proud of its anti-test stance. Exclamation mark. Don't send it.

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BestColleges

MARCH 26, 2024

Cyber Florida works with K-12 and higher education to help create pathways for women, minorities, veterans, first responders, and people seeking to change careers. Since ChatGPT launched in 2022, higher education has been wrestling with how to implement AI into its plagiarism policies and curricula.

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BestColleges

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Naval Academy Policies Last October, SFFA filed a similar lawsuit against the U.S. Naval Academy, claiming the academy's admissions policies rely on racial classifications. From 2000-2021, racial minorities increased from 20% to 36% at West Point and from 19% to 37% at the Naval Academy.

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Office of Undergraduate Admission Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2022

I grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and I am in my fourth year studying Learning and Organizational Change (LOC) in the School of Education and Social Policy (SESP) with a minor in Native. I am Oglala Sioux and a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation.

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Ruffaloni

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In the past this discussion (about 12-month unduplicated versus fall snapshot data) has been viewed as a very wonky-type of data collection policy issue, and for that reason not many people paid attention to the details. It’s not just a wonky issue with some minor data differences.

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The Thoughtful College Search

MAY 2, 2023

A year later, the Supreme Court for the state of Washington reversed the lower court’s ruling, holding that the Law School admissions policy did not violate the Constitution. Justices William Brennan and William Douglas voted in the minority that the case was not in fact moot, and Justice Douglas issued a written dissent.

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BestColleges

MARCH 13, 2024

Advocates for these laws have called these practices unfair to students looking to transfer schools, re-enroll in college, or receive their degrees due to minor debts. The bill aims to prevent public colleges and universities from using specific debt collection methods against students with institutional debt.

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DC College Counseling

JULY 6, 2023

Asian students will likely see the biggest positive impact - in fact, the negative impact on Asian students from affirmative action policies was the central argument in this case. As many of our rising seniors are learning, test-optional policies are not test-blind policies.

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EAB

JUNE 20, 2023

That can be kind of difficult to wrap our heads around because some complaints can be minor or even seem ridiculous to leaders. MO: Sure, one example that comes up a lot is complaints about different hybrid work policies for different groups. MA: Is the suggestion, then, that leaders stop taking action to address more minor complaints?

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The Koppelman Group

OCTOBER 27, 2023

They have extended their test-optional policy through 2024, and in previous years, only around 41% of admitted students submitted test scores. They think that means they have to write about being a part of a racial, ethnic, religious, or sexual minority. SCU is best known for its business and engineering programs.

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Ivy Central

JUNE 26, 2023

Brandeis University was founded with a noble purpose - to provide an inclusive educational environment for individuals who were facing discrimination in higher education, including Jews, ethnic and racial minorities, and women. Moreover, students have the option to pursue up to three majors.

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