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  2. US Supreme Court rejects Virginia case over race in high ...

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    The court's 6-3 conservative majority last June in a landmark ruling rejected race-conscious college and university admissions policies long used to raise the number of Black, Hispanic and other ...

  3. University of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    University of Virginia Type Public research university Established January 25, 1819 ; 206 years ago (January 25, 1819) Founder Thomas Jefferson Accreditation SACS Academic affiliations AAU ORAU SCHEV URA Sea-grant Space-grant Endowment $13.6 billion (2022) Budget $1.91 billion (2020) [a] President James E. Ryan Provost Ian Baucom Academic staff 3,265 (Fall 2019) 3,083 full-time 182 part-time ...

  4. University and college admission - Wikipedia

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    Some universities (e.g. Oxford, Cambridge, Manchester, Imperial College, King's College London or University College London) and some disciplines (e.g. medicine) routinely require shortlisted candidates to attend an interview and/or complete special admissions tests [33] before deciding whether to make an offer. In the absence of tests and ...

  5. List of admission tests to colleges and universities - Wikipedia

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    Local GCE Advanced Level qualification is offered by the Department of Examinations. Passing A-Levels is the major requirement for applying for local universities. This exam is very competitive, where students have to study college 1st-year and 2nd-year material and pass it to get college admissions.

  6. Criticism of college and university rankings in North America

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    Reed College. In 1995, Reed College refused to participate in U.S. News & World Report annual survey. According to Reed's Office of Admissions, "Reed College has actively questioned the methodology and usefulness of college rankings ever since the magazine's best-colleges list first appeared in 1983, despite the fact that the issue ranked Reed among the top ten national liberal arts colleges.

  7. Higher education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A US Department of Education longitudinal survey of 15,000 high school students in 2002 and 2012, found that 84% of the 27-year-old students had some college education, but only 34% achieved a bachelor's degree or higher; 79% owe some money for college and 55% owe more than $10,000; college dropouts were three times more likely to be unemployed ...

  8. Should you use a home equity loan to pay off your debts? - AOL

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    30%. Almost one-third (30 percent) of homeowners agree debt consolidation is a good reason to tap home equity. ... A better course might be to pay college tuition directly with a HELOC, which ...

  9. Affirmative action in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 2009, education statistics denote the problems of college admissions in the US: "The College Board recently released the average 2009 SAT scores by race and ethnicity. They found that the gap between Black and Latino student versus White and Asian students has widened, despite the College Board's recent efforts to change questions to ...